James Gosling Quotes

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.

I'm glad that I walked into my purpose. I'm glad that I walked into something that was a smooth transition from football.

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.

As much as you plan your career and plan your life, there are events that will change everything 180 degrees, I’ve had multiple events like that. I always wanted to be a doctor and now I’m in the theater business. But these defining moments in your life are really what builds your character.

I get to meet really interesting people.

I love Hootie & the Blowfish and what we do, but that's not my main focus anymore.

I finally said, 'I don't care if you're the first person in your family to be a lawyer.' Everybody thought what I was doing was really exciting, but it was not moving me one bit. And that's when I decided to join city government in Chicago, and that changed my life.

After I had my baby, I reprioritized my life in general. I really wanted to play characters that gave me a different kind of fulfillment. That is a difficult thing to find, especially as an actress.

Becoming Miss America was one of those things. It immediately changed what I thought I was going to do with the rest of my life.

I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.

I was always looking for something else to do most of the time, until I got into the acting program. Then, I really found myself.

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.

One summer, when I was on break from architecture school in Tijuana, my aunt gave me a summer job cleaning up and peeling garlic, and I got to see her in her element. She was so passionate and such a good teacher, I decided to quit architecture school and go to culinary school in Los Angeles.

Getting the spot of 'Blue Peter' changed the path of my life.

I left 'Octomom.' I went back to my life as a counselor.

After working as a charter boat captain and dive master in the Caribbean for a number of years, I decided it was time for a change.

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 left family court for the vagaries of TV and said to myself, 'Judy, what the hell are you thinking?' It seems like only yesterday.

Drag Race' has changed my career and life profoundly.

I never thought I would become an actress.

I am looking at acting in a different way now. I always looked at it as equity to build the other things I was doing; now, I consider it a career.

I don't see myself in politics at 51. I definitely want to do something else.

I never thought I'd be an actor.