Quotes About Transition

It has been great portraying Gollum, but it will be great to see my face on screen for a change.

It definitely does take some time to get accustomed to the character you're portraying and takes an equal amount of time to get out of it.

When I started with Ramesh Sippy's 'Buniyaad' in 1985, I was in my mid-20s and within a year, I was elevated from a lover to a father and then to a grandfather. By the time the show finished, I was portraying the role of an 80-year-old man.

I changed Portugal to France and France to England.

I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an English school.

My wife and son cried when we left Portugal, but I had to move.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

I played the flute in elementary school, but when I got into high school, they didn't have any flutes; they gave me a clarinet and said, 'Play it in the same way, just hold in a different position.' I really didn't care much for it.

A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.

I had some different positions. At first, I was a forward, and then, step by step, I kept moving back, and now I'm here at the goal. This was my way.

I play a lot of positions in high school, but in the end I'll probably be a pitcher.

I am a very positive person, but you don't get taught how to deal with the end of your career. Never.

As a film actor, I connected to the people on the good and positive things. But, as a politician I feel the pain and miseries.

I'm thinking about myself, I want to develop and I didn't have these possibilities at Bayern anymore. I'm very grateful to them.

There was a time in my 40s where I thought, oh, it's all over - not just work, but I'm never going to feel young again, I'm always going to feel like I know what's going to happen, I'll know what to expect. Looking back I don't know if that was a midlife crisis, I don't know - but I don't feel that now. There's possibilities. It gets better.

Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.

People are afraid of change, but change can also mean possibilities and new things to explore.

Maybe I will end my career here in Milan, but there is a possibility of going back to Brazil.

There's always a possibility that players can come and go when the market opens.

I loved living in London in my 20s and 30s, but after a while, you kind of go, 'Right, is this it? Is this it for the rest of my days? Or is there some other possibility?'

I'm pretty much done with political commentary. I've said everything I could possibly say. I've been a big mouth for long enough.

I couldn't wait to leave school. So I did it as soon as I possibly could at 16. I had no clue what I wanted to do next other than being at school wasn't it and that I was desperate to make my own way as soon as I could.