Ron Livingston Quotes

At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.

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

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.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

I have no regrets. The best thing to happen to me was for Lorne Michaels to hire me and fire me.

There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.

I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future.

I actually ended up in fashion as opposed to sport because I needed the money. And it turned out that it tapped all my skills.

It's been said of me that I must get out of bed every morning and go cartwheeling down the road. Of course it's not true. There certainly was a time in my 20s when I wanted a bit of freedom, and I found that difficult, but if I'm ever having a time when I'm feeling sorry for myself, something always jolts me back.

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.

In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.

After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

I was with the Steelers, and I got cut, and I remember, when I left, I was relieved.

A really big thing I've learned - and I think it's so liberating - is when you realize no one knows what they're doing.

I feel like my transition, in a broader sense, began the second I left home and came to New York. Because all of a sudden, I opened myself up to options about how to be.

I actually got a visa through a job that fell through, and it allowed me to move out here and start from scratch. There's more opportunity in America for girls like me, I guess.

I remember, in middle school, I went to four different schools. That was a rough patch. But it's also what shaped me as a person.

I was sad to leave Monaco, a club that gave me a lot of great moments, but in football, sometimes you need new challenges, and I thought it was time to move on.

I think that New York liberated me in the sense that I moved here when I was 18, so it was a fresh perspective on life. I had been living in L.A. my whole life and I had never lived anywhere else, so being away from family and really making a name for myself was huge for me.

I had no direction. But now I can afford to have no direction.