The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.
'Performance' gave me doubts about my way of life. Before that, I had been completely involved in the more bawdy side of the film business. But after that, everything changed.
I've gone from the edgy girl to the girl you call for H&M and L'Oreal, which is something neither I nor the myriad agencies that rejected me when I tried to get signed could have predicted.
Actually, you have to spend a lot of time on TV. So I have taken a break from TV and shifted my focus in the movies.
I'd quit my job at a production company and was like, 'I'm going to be a writer...' I became a temp, and it was the mid-nineties, when there was the Internet boom, and the normal group of graduates ready to fill in didn't exist.
The Righteous Brothers got so heavy because of the dramatic hit records like 'Lovin' Feelin.' Bobby and I just felt like we were a couple of Orange County guys who were just having a great time singing rock n' roll, and then, boy, it became something else.
Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
I did a year of 'Guiding Light', and I was going to be a movie actor or a stage actor, but not a TV actor. That just wasn't going to happen. And obviously, things changed so remarkably.
I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.
I played a bahu for six years on-screen. I really wanted to come out of that.
After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.
My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don't regret it.
I guess my path feels sort of different now... I don't know what's going to happen, but I certainly want to make music a bigger part of my life in the future than it has been for the last couple of years.
When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.
Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.
We used to say when we were 20 years old, that when you reach 30, you gotta hang up your guitar and get a real job.
I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.
After eight years on 'Young and the Restless' and eight years on 'Criminal Minds,' I'm ready for that next phase of my career.
I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.
I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].
I wouldn't say 'Avatar' changed my life, but it definitely changed my career.
I have worked in comedies and romance genre, so I wanted a change. I wanted to do some tough work.
I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.
I'm doing 'Alvin and the Chipmunks.' I get to play the bad guy. That's a nice change of pace.
I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
