Quotes About Transition

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

I have to reinvent myself.

I've tried to reinvent myself from time to time, and I enjoy doing movies.

It's interesting how there are a few times in your life when you get to reinvent yourself. Like the beginning of junior high or high school, and certainly when you go off to college.

There comes a time in everybody's musical career that you have to regroup and reinvent yourself.

There's a phase for everyone, where actors need to slow down and reinvent themselves.

I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.

When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.

I left my job as a feature writer on a newspaper to write a book, then sent it off to a number of agents thinking they would all reject me. Within a week, most had come back to say they loved what they had read, which then led to a bidding war for my first two novels.

I mean, I'm an 'X Factor' reject presenting on Radio 2, what's going on?

I never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life.

We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

I had several offers to act in films. But I rejected all of them and decided to plunge into politics.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there.

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

Sometimes you're a little too close for comfort, and I think anybody can relate to that, whether you're in college or just moving out on your own.

In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they are no longer than what they are now, and that's psychologically low-grade devastating.

It's true that time is against me, and I am closer to hanging up my boots, but one thing I have clear is that I will be involved in football. I don't know how, but I will be related to football. It's my life.

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

When someone gets closely related to a character they play on TV, it's very hard to break that mold and go on to do something else.

A lot of people ask me what has been the biggest change with me being in England and a lot of people expect me to say something related to football, but mostly it's just growing up and becoming a man.

After finishing my college, I wanted to do something related to the media.

I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.