Quotes About Transition

I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.

I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.

I went from wanting to be a Beatle to becoming a 'widdly-widdly' guitar player.

Let all of us turn from bullets to ballots, from guns to shovels.

Even though momentarily I thought about being a doctor, I was always involved in theatre and did a drama degree. I just didn't have the guts to go, 'Yes, I'm going to be an actor,' until I was probably 21.

I would have to be in a very different place in my life to coach basketball. I'll always work out and be in the gym.

My favorite part about going to the gym used to be leaving.

I don't want to be considered a gymnast anymore.

It is fine to be all focused on gymnastics if that is what you want to do, but once you are finished with gymnastics, what are you going to do?

At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.

I couldn't even think about elite gymnastics for a while. It was definitely good for me to try something different.

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

How did a prairie-dwelling, red-meat-eating, gun-toting former conservative become the hope of liberal radio? It all started with this annoying habit I have of speaking my mind.

Changing lifestyle habits acquired over many years is often extremely difficult.

Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits.

The country has had enough of the Clintons and the Bushes.

There was a point in my life where I had enough of football.

I used to be a hairdresser.

Haiti has changed a lot.

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.

When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.'

The longest show I've ever done was four and a half years, so I can only imagine what ending an eight year show is like.

I really didn't understand how I got from my singing teacher's living room to the Albert Hall.