Michael Chabon Quotes

I have to reinvent myself.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

You come to the city, and you have a chance to find out who you really are.

Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

Every day you have to reinvent yourself

You grow. You don't want to stay the same. The thing that was great for you before isn't going to be great for you now. A woman should have many faces through her life, not just one face, not just one hairdo, not just one way. You want to keep rediscovering what's fun for you.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

Every country I go to, I learn a little bit more about myself.

The world is always reinventing itself, and so should you. I used to say, 'I haven't started yet.' Sadly, most people don't develop their potential.

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

I'm a guy who just loves to reinvent myself.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.

I'm just constantly figuring out new ways to reinvent myself.

Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For me, I do 'Hedwig,' and I see it's a midlife crisis maybe, and I see what's next. And it's a good trampoline, maybe, into the next part of my life.