Craig Revel Horwood Quotes

I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

I always wanted to do something completely different.

My mother's sobriety - that's when I found the theater, that's when I moved from being a basketball player to being a musician, to being an actor, to then being a writer.

I'm glad that I walked into my purpose. I'm glad that I walked into something that was a smooth transition from football.

I think rap was a better move for me but football's been my love since I learned how to walk. I was gonna be a running back or quarterback. That was my life. That was it but things happen for a reason. I wouldn't trade this in for nothing.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

I knew if I stayed in London my whole life would be dancing. I'd won almost every major title you can. I thought 'This really isn't my passion. I really want to sing,' and I knew I wouldn't be able to if I stayed there.

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

I just happened to step into acting. And now I can't imagine myself doing anything else.

I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

There were always moments where I'd say, 'What else can I do with my life?' But when I was 30 years old and discovered I could write - I wrote 'Black Cloud' in six weeks - it opened up a whole new world for me.

To do the things that I did, I'm amazed that I had the audacity - like resigning from the Army and becoming a janitor and a songwriter.

I was always looking for something else to do most of the time, until I got into the acting program. Then, I really found myself.

At 17, I realized that it's going to be a tough decision to make, but I had the clarity of thought to walk out of cricket and try my luck in acting.

I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.

I know these are my mandatory overs, but I would like to do films for as long as I breathe.

I didn't always want to be a model, but once I started, I realized how much I loved it.

My first idea before coming to TFC was to change my life.

I was once chillin in my room, watching TV, just in a regular place.. And now I'm in this big world, living my dream and, you know, doing what I love. It's just crazy how it all came around.

I never thought I would become a photographer.