Quotes About Transition

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.

Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is.

In the scheme of life, being moved aside from a job, however much you love it, is a small thing.

I was doing good in school, but I didn't want to do school anymore.

I went to NYU undergrad, then went to AFI for grad school.

If someone said to me, 10 years ago, that I'd be spending effectively my retirement years in sci-fi and fantasy, I'd have said, 'Well, don't be ridiculous.'

It was not so easy for me in Scotland in general.

I was born in Cambridgeshire and moved to Scotland when I was seven.

I am from Scotland and moved down to London when I was 21.

I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.

I was a model scout. I was never a model, but they just dropped the scout.

Yes, scrambled eggs are lovely, and I've eaten them, and enjoyed them, and that was OK. Now I don't want to any more, and that's OK too.

I believe that everything starts from scratch when changing a coach.

When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

I just stopped playing. I did some screenwriting and got into the nature thing. Music kind of went away.

When you take over a screwed-up situation, you need time.

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.

When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

I took a good one year off before and after Haroon's birth, so from the beginning I have been right into it. For me, it was quite seamless.

At 33 years old, I didn't have to work anymore. I had to search through 'What am I going to do for the rest of my life?' I wasn't ready to fly-fish for the rest of my life.

I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.

Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.

I was at Roma for two years, had two great seasons there, and everyone told me to stay, but it was in my mind to come and be successful in England.