Hugh Grant Quotes

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.

I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.

I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

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 had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!

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

I don't see myself acting for the rest of my life.

I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.

I have no regrets in going into politics or leaving the Tollywood for a while.

As my athletic career was coming to an end in 2007, I asked myself, do I want to work for somebody, or go out and make a difference?

When I was in MTV, I wasn't really looking out to do films.

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

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.