Chris Harrison Quotes

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

The transition from sports into acting was something I got blindsided by. I had a full scholarship to law school. I had a different life planned. I started a business, and I was all ready to go. I suddenly got in a local movie, just to say to my kids one day, "Yeah, your old man was in a movie," and I caught the bug.

I did a couple of films, I was very lucky at the beginning of my career... and then, I never had another job here for ten years probably and I moved to Europe.

And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

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 think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

I just stepped off the show biz bus and changed gears.

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

As an actor, it's a very strange adjustment to start playing the father. I was used to playing a kid my whole life, and then all of a sudden, it's like, boom. I guess when I let my hair go grey, things changed.

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

After eight years on 'Young and the Restless' and eight years on 'Criminal Minds,' I'm ready for that next phase of my career.

There is life after acting.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

I did nothing but theater until, I guess, '99. I was all the way through college the first time that I had stepped in front of a camera. And it's weird; it's definitely a transition.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.