Ted Danson Quotes

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

Midlife is a time of explosive change, particularly for women. It's just like experiencing another puberty. The changes that take place in your body are enormous and, like puberty, you have to throw off the past.

I used to be someone.

I felt like I was literally losing myself as being the joyful, spiritual, passionate, exciting woman that I naturally had been.

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.

Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

I'm not much like myself any more.

You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can. I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.

When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

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

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

'Ugly Betty' has been four years of my life, important adolescent years. I think that all I've really known was getting pampered and interviewed and getting my picture taken.

I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

You do need to maintain some of yourself and know who you are, but that doesn't mean you can't evolve.