Chael Sonnen Quotes

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

I'm sort of doing a lot of the things now that I never thought I would and that I wished I had done a year or so ago.

Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting... I'm not sure why.

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

Improv changed my life in the best way. I gained so much confidence and really learned how to use my sense of humor to do something other than make sarcastic comments to the TV, though that remains one of my best skills. I stayed in Chicago for college mainly to continue doing improv, which was an awesome decision for me.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

I never gave up believing that there was much more to life than how I was living it.

Now you watch reality TV, you watch them in all those pools or Jacuzzis and I say to myself was I that stupid? But that was me then.

For the first five years of music and first five years of acting, I don't remember it because I was running to where I was going. Finally I was like, 'Man, I missed everything.' So I just stopped, and I started looking around.

I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

From 19 to 28 there was a lot of turmoil in my life, but in a stuck way. Then, around 28, my life started to get shaken up. I realized I wanted to grow more and that anything that wasn't working in my life, I could fix it. I feel like I came into my womanhood. And that was when I got married.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

I allowed myself to think if I could be doing anything in the world, what would I be doing? And what came to mind is I'd be traveling a little bit, I'd be going to classes and I'd be going back to school.

When certain doors opened around 'Twin Peaks,' I wasn't interested in walking through them. Now I just feel like I'm more open to life. I have two children. My life is not dependent on the business in that way.

Looking back is a way to sharpen the focus on the things you want to change in your life. I think there's something about nostalgia that really puts a fine point on the here-and-now, and that can be incredibly fascinating and interesting and engaging for the mind.

I've been building a future for myself outside of acting.

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

I have definitely had a big impactful change since 2010, and it's rough to look in the mirror, but it's such an important thing to do that.