Quotes About Transition

I landed the female lead role on 'Chuck' within three days of landing in L.A., so it was a little overwhelming, and I definitely felt like I got thrown into the deep end.

I can see how child stars can be thrown off-kilter.

When it's my last year, I'll probably let people know when that last pitch is thrown and say thanks and walk away.

Prior to doing a 'Bond' film, I was a young actor doing classical theater and some BBC dramas. Then, suddenly, I was thrown into this franchise. I had never experienced anything like it.

I was thrown into the spotlight pretty quickly at UCLA.

I would say the greatest challenge, for me, had been my rookie year and learning my spot. It is an emotional battle, as you have good days and bad days. Being young and thrown into this big business is challenging.

I got a lot of praise and attention post 'Kai Po Che' but I was thrown into a big ocean suddenly.

I'm at my best when I'm thrown, even though I don't like to be thrown.

The first team play in a certain way and when players are thrown into the first team you want to make sure they can handle it, and I think five of my players made their debut in the Premier League.

After a time, all children have to be on their own. Though as parents you always want to cushion them, however, when life throws new challenges, they have to take their own calls.

Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.

Getting on fast-breaks, you don't do that when you let a team shoot 20 free throws in one quarter.

I had very little time to mentally prepare before I was just kind of thrust into it. And I'm watching all of these movie stars that I idolized sharing the stage with me. And then I'm having dinner with Angelina Jolie because that's how the seating chart worked over at Marvel - and then trying to reconcile all of this in my brain.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

The first several years I was an actor, I sort of eked out a living playing thugs almost exclusively until 'Robocop.'

Something a lot of people don't know about me is I sucked my thumb until I was in like eighth grade. It's cause, when I was a baby, I sucked my thumb and I guess my mom and dad never weaned me off of that, because they thought it was cute. And then it's like an addiction. That's your security blanket.

I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

When my father retired, all he did was twiddle his thumbs. I don't want to go down that road. As long as I'm still in demand, I'll work.

I started off as a rapper from Thunder Bay, Ontario, believe it or not. There was a little group of 10 or 12 of us that would get together and copy each other's cassettes. So I was a rapper first, and it was that music that got me into this great entertainment world and got me out of Thunder Bay.

Right after retiring I didn't want to be on the road 16 weeks a year - leaving on a Thursday night and coming home on a Sunday night - it was a little too much.

Life changes, and thus, partying changes, and what it means to party evolves as well.

I loved being a soprano. It was one of my very favorite things in life, and thus far, and losing that voice was a profound emotional moment for me in my life. I never became that interested in my adult male singing voice.

Mass adoption of renewable energies would thus necessitate a fundamental reshaping of modern energy infrastructures.

While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.