Caroline Leavitt Quotes

Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.

Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.

I had such a sense of purpose when I moved to San Francisco, and the purpose was purely to be in that city, and I was going to figure out the rest.

Most of my world is in London, and I feel like this is where I went mad and ended up finding myself.

I'm shedding off the old me and I'm reborn as the new me - it's great!

There's a reason why she left them, Lauren," he says. His voice is deep, and it rumbles. "What's your name?" "Um..." I don't know why I hesitate. But "Beatrice" just doesn't sound right anymore. "Think about it," he says, a faint smile curling his lips. " You don't get to pick again." A new place, a new name. I can be remade here. "Tris," I say firmly.

I have to reinvent myself.

He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

I'm a beginning, not an end.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

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

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

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 really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

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

I shall create a new world for myself.

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

I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and cut my own hair, it was the most freeing thing, I think, I've ever done. That was my 21st year: I cut my hair, I was doing Broadway; I was living in New York, and I was really having a moment of becoming my individual self, and it was amazing.

In America, we can reinvent ourselves - we're encouraged to.

I'm totally convinced that the end of my football career is just the beginning of something I haven't even discovered yet.