Caroline Leavitt Quotes

It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

So where do you start when you want to start your life again?

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

It is a good thing to start fresh.

As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

Our show is about starting over.

Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens.

Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.

I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.

America's a land of second opportunities.

Short of finding a place on the witness protection programme, you don't get many opportunities to completely reinvent your life. Going to university changes that. Away from home, away from parents, away from anyone who remembers you from school, you can pretend to be far cooler and more experienced than you are.

I am happy to start from zero, to create, to restart.

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.

How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

We can always begin again.

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.