Dane Cook Quotes

I did modelling for five years, then I felt I wanted to do something different and challenging.

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.

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.

There is life after acting.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing.

Wrestling is all I've known since I was 17 so it's time I let myself focus on other things and explored other parts of myself.

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

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

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

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.

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

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.

For a few years, I thought I was putting show business behind me. I was busy doing other things in life, particularly with politics. I was not out looking for films, really. I lost interest.

I don't have even a moment of regret for leaving my career behind.

At 17, I realized that it's going to be a tough decision to make, but I had the clarity of thought to walk out of cricket and try my luck in acting.

I was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn't want it to be my entire life forever. And then it was this very specific life, and I wanted to learn about other things. So I modeled to fill the time because dancing was very much a job, even when I was 14 years old.

Now I don't look at life where I'd say, 'Oh gosh, my life's over if I don't have films anymore.' My approach is that there's so much more for me to do.

Right after college, I participated in the Miss India contest and then went on to pursue modelling, as that seemed like the logical next step. But pretty soon, I started to feel stagnant in that profession.

I felt my personal life was not what it should be. It had nothing to do with Mr. Show - I'm monstrously appreciative and understand what it did for me and to me - but after four years, I just felt like I needed to do something else. I guess I wanted to be in a different place, physically.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.