Edward Hoagland Quotes

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

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

Actors are always afraid of ending up like overcooked old soup over time. What's risky is that you don't realize this has happened, and you just get thick and boring. Going abroad was like getting a new pot to cook everything again. I was a rookie, a new self. And they were asking me, 'Who are you?'

I was in a comfortable situation, I was on tour, it was cool, but it wasn't at all what I wanted to do. So I had to leave it, start over. My friends were like, 'You were doing something, now you're back at day one.' So people kind of look at you different when you start over. Everyone needs to challenge themselves like that.

When I shaved my hair, my friends asked me to keep it, maybe make my own wig out of it, but I wanted the old hair to go; it was not mine. I wanted to let go.

If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over

I've just recently gotten divorced so I have a whole new horizon to conquer.

Never, ever, ever think that your life is over, but know always that each day, each hour, each moment is another beginning, another opportunity, another chance to re-create yourself anew.

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

And it soon became obvious to me that I had to process and keep my relationship with my ex-wife separate from that of my children. They didn't need or want too much personal information about our relationship. Change is good, and ultimately, creating a new path at this point in my life is energizing, creative, and rejuvenating.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

So where do you start when you want to start your life again?

I left my apartment in London and I sold everything. I literally had $1000 and a suitcase when I got on the plane. The next day I enrolled in my first acting class. We had some great people, Jim Carrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Molly Ringwald. It was very inspirational.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Divorce is divorce and it's a really tough thing to go through, (But) I'd love to get married again.

I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press?

I'm excited to start a new chapter in my life.

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

The first day of the rest of my life.