Aisling Bea Quotes

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.

A lot of times people say they want a fresh start, but you can't really have a fresh start because it doesn't happen that way.

I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

I left for New York three days after graduation.

It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.

Everything I do now is a first.

I had just broken up with my wife so I was searching for another way to live.

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, 'Heads - Miami, tails - California. I was in my mid-20s and came out here with no training. Acting wasn't even in my mind.

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

There is always a time to move on.

I just got out of a nine-year relationship. I think the last thing I probably need is anybody in my life.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

You'd like people to remember you for these great times on the ice. In reality, you want them to forget because you're doing something new and better.

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

You have to decide when it is time to move on.

If I go to Hollywood, I will have to start all over again - which is fine and makes me humble.