Shannon Miller Quotes

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.

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 still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.

I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

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.

For a few years, I thought I was putting show business behind me. I was busy doing other things in life, particularly with politics. I was not out looking for films, really. I lost interest.

I don't have even a moment of regret for leaving my career behind.

I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.

I have found a love for acting, but I also would like to live abroad for awhile or definitely go to college someday.

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

Now I don't look at life where I'd say, 'Oh gosh, my life's over if I don't have films anymore.' My approach is that there's so much more for me to do.

I had prepared myself for the second half of my life [to be] filled with other passions that don't include being in front of the camera. And then all of a sudden I got more work and more work and more work. And I went, "Well maybe things have shifted." And I think they have.

I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting.

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.