Reinventing Yourself Quotes

I believe one can live many lives through personal style. Every day is an occasion to reinvent yourself

You have to reinvent yourself.

Time repeats itself, so it's up to you to keep up with the curves of the music and keep reinventing yourself so you can be better than what you are.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.

I'm very proud of 'Gavin and Stacey,' but I think I have to write something else even to start to consider myself a writer. Just because you do something once, it doesn't mean that's who you are. I played football last night; it doesn't mean I'm a footballer.

There is life after acting.

It's very, very difficult to reinvent yourself when you're 40 or 50, whether you are a taxi driver who now needs to become a web designer, or anything else. It just becomes more difficult and more scary.

Some players have to change their game in their careers. I did, and I like it.

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

I think that a lot of people I'm close to feel that they went through a period of real difficulty when they moved away from home... You do have to reinvent yourself, and people have to struggle with that. It was really a struggle for me.

You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.

I learned a lot about self-reinvention. How you can be born Milton Sternberg in the Bronx and then become Monroe Stahr in Hollywood.

When you go to college you can just be whoever you wanna be. So I got there and I'm like, Yeah, I'ma rapper.

Every day you have to reinvent yourself

Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just 're-tiring' - put on some new tires and go on to do something else.

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

I think it gets a little harder as you find more success. As success happens, you have to figure out this question of 'What I am going to do next that stands out?' Because then you get seen as 'this thing,' which is a part of you. But it's not really you.

Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one.

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.

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'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

I got to a point where I was completely typecast, and I knew I was paying my dues, and I was happy to do so because I knew that's what had to happen, and I loved acting. But I would never go back.

We try to tell these guys that the end of a boxing career isn't the end of their lives: it's the beginning of a new one.

When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.