Ted Rall Quotes

All my life, all I've wanted to do was a talk show, and I've done it for most of my life. Now to break away from that is kind of a challenge.

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.

As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos.

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself.

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.

If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun.

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.

I think that, as an actor, you have to break out eventually, and if you do it properly, it can be something that's positive.

I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

I'm here today because I hated everything else.

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.

Acting has always been a strong force in my life, but it was hard to change direction. I didn't make a paycheck for two years.

A lot of people want to know why did I leave the BBC: did I have an argument with them? No! I had 13 wonderful years. But it was time. Since I left university, I'd only ever worked for the BBC. It was simply time.

My first job was television. I got to where I wanted to go, but through a little bit of a detour. When I first started working in film and television, I hated myself - I didn't like what I was doing at all. All I could think of was, 'I'm overacting. Be smaller.' I started to do that, but that was not fun. I felt confined doing film and TV.

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.