Charles Soule Quotes

I'm a mom. I'm a lawyer. I'm a lifelong Michigander.

I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

My life has always been compartmentalized into different aspects. I have my speed skating Olympic pursuits, I have my personal life and have my business life and have my entertainment - TV - Hollywood - whatever have you - always compartmentalizing every aspect of my life.

I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

I was a coat checker, a dishwasher, a waitress, and those were some of the happiest times of my life because I still got to do my writing. You're lucky when you can work and then do your art.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for 'True Blood' and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

I grew up in this industry. I'm a third generation actor, and I believe strongly that life and career are two different things. Career is inside my life. I'm also a photographer, a pianist, and lots of different things, so my life consists of so many different elements that there are moments when I have to step away and be me.

I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me.

What I like to wear, I do myself. I don't know how that sounds, but it's the truth. My life is so mixed with my profession that I don't know where I begin or my work ends.

I haven't ever felt I've had to divide my 'actress' life from the rest of my life.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

With all my outside activities, I have to remind people I am really in advertising.

I'm a writer. I'm moonlighting on television. I never made any pretensions to that. As much as I like being on 'Real Sports,' I have been a writer since I was a little boy, and that's still my first love.

I was a solicitor once, so I'm truly grateful because I know what it's like to have a proper job.

I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

Writing fueled me, and my task was to make it fit into my life. I practiced my trade as an attorney, and on weekends and holidays, I typed away. I assumed a nom de plume, Selena Montgomery, to separate my fiction from more academic publications.

I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I expect both those things to be true for as long as I'm able to do them.