Cote de Pablo Quotes

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

Life's a roller coaster, but I feel a change.

To imagine a better life for yourself and your family and to leave behind all that is familiar requires a special kind of courage.

New York was very frightening and very overwhelming, and I didn't really know anybody. My sister had some friends there, and I stayed with them, then I moved in with a friend of a friend. I was very outside my comfort zone. Then again, I was pretty uncomfortable in general - but I knew it was where I was supposed to be.

I still just sort of live my life the way that I was before. I don't know when I will feel that it's different.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

Janie blinks and leans against the wall, just in case. But it's no one's dream. It's just the end of some things. And the beginning of others.

You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?

I realised I was living in my own universe with lots of assistants. I didn't have a cell phone; I didn't know how to use a computer. Everybody was doing everything for me. So I left and moved to New York. It was the end of an era, and I must say I found myself a bit lost. I wasn't in the protected Mugler universe any more.

Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

Life is one big transition.

No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

I guess I'm breaking out a little of what's comfortable and easy.

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

When in doubt, do it.

Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.

I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life - I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen.

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.