Quotes About Transition

Even though I've acted in many films, I have directed for the first time, and I will always consider myself a student.

Being an actor started me writing, and that led to directing.

I've acted just to get to directing.

Choreography is amazing. I'm still a dancer, yet I transitioned into choreography then as a Creative Director. All of these creative elements are brought out of being a dancer. Directing is something that comes out of understanding movement and choreography. Directing movement is directing a dance piece.

I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

I had a very embarrassing time acting extremely badly at university, which is when directing suddenly became so attractive.

I fell out of love with acting and in love with directing.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

In business, sometimes you have to change the CEO in order to change the direction of the company.

Life begins at 40. I could attempt writing. Life is taking me into different directions.

Football goes fast but it can go quickly in both directions.

When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions. That's kind of what happened with me and the Eastside Boyz. They wanted to do different things than I wanted to do, so we separated.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

I have so many other things going on that if 'A Dirty Shame' is my last movie, that's OK.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I'm leaving office.