Jack Antonoff Quotes

I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

I believe that there are moments in everyone's lives where a door flings open, and if you're terrified of what's on the other side, you must walk through it.

It is painful to say that the best player you have is better off trying something new.

When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

My only advice would be to someone right now, is if you're in a position in your life where you need to make a change, this is the best time.

So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

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.

Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'

Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

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

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.

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

I am absolutely terrified to move... I truly, truly believe that success lies outside of your comfort zone, and my house has been the greatest comfort zone for me.

I tell people that life is like a book. Sometimes you've just got to turn the chapter. Even if you don't understand it, turn the chapter and move away from it. You don't know all the good things that are ahead of you yet.

My decision to leave Impact had nothing to with their business or finances and everything with me wanting to challenge myself to something new.

My becoming an actor was a massive shift for me, and a terrifying one.

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.

Anytime you leave something you've done and where you've been for nearly a decade, it's going to be different.