Deborah Meaden Quotes

I always wanted to do something completely different.

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

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 didn't expect to become an artist. I was not comfortable going out on the road.

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

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

I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.

I started out as a music teacher; I never planned on becoming an actress.

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

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

I didn't intend to be an actress. It was one of many things I was interested in, and it just took off. I was an actress between the ages of 18 and 22, and it was a wonderful, fun thing to do, but it wasn't what I intended long term. I parked acting a long time ago.

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

Sometimes you have to re-invent yourself in this business in order to be accepted in different roles.

When I left I knew I was gonna go back to WWE. But I needed to go because whatever I was doing wasn't working. I needed to take a chance on myself and get better. The only way to do that was take some risks and go somewhere.

After Class 10, I kept away from films.

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

When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

This knowledge that you might have to really reorganize and redefine yourself and build new skills is really important.

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

Change is good, and ultimately, creating a new path at this point in my life is energizing, creative, and rejuvenating.

"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives."

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel.