James Fox Quotes

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.

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.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was having wasted my life in the corporate world for so long.

My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.

I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.

My life was really interesting before 'Chic.'

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.

My lifestyle, my life, everything has changed because of this show. Has it made me look different? Yes, it's changed everything for me, everything from this show. And I cannot thank every single part of 'Sons of Anarchy' enough.

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.