Quotes About Transition

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

I needed to walk through the 'Idol' door to get to the rest of my career.

I've been in the 'Idol' bubble, and now it's popped, and I don't know what's going to happen.

I don't think when I decided I didn't want to be an accountant any more that I was necessarily saying I wanted to be an NBA head coach. I just really wanted to figure out if I could do it.

'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.

I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

I started my career, actually, maybe the first 10, 11 years, playing the bad boyfriend with the gun. And I got ill with that and moved on, for some reason, to playing cops all the time.

Just two years after hitting the top, I hit the bottom. I found myself penniless, deathly ill and getting a divorce. It was all a result of my ignorance. I didn't know how to handle everything that hit me at once.

The demise of Constellation is not the death of a dream. It's just the end of an illusion.

I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

My hair got lighter, and I gradually went blonde. I liked it. Had more fun. But my image of myself in my head is this dark-haired person.

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

Accepting that my time with Arsenal was over was difficult because I never imagined leaving.

I don't care about my personal acting career anymore. I'm done with it. After 10 years of making movies and doing better than I ever could have imagined, I sort of had to ask myself: 'What am I supposed to do with all of this success that I have had?'

If you'd asked me after 'Band of Brothers' what thing I wanted to do next, I certainly never would have imagined 'Southland.'

At the start it felt strange to wear the Chelsea shirt, because I had never imagined I would leave Barca.

I think I found roles which weren't the roles I thought I'd be doing but they were the kind that brought me where I never imagined myself to be.

Most farmers know that their children's future will probably not be in agriculture, but they have a hard time imagining a different life.

I grew up a lot by going to college. I was still really immature.