Herb Ritts Quotes

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'

For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.

I had a great ten years at Fox, but it's also been fun being a free agent.

When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

I didn't expect to become an artist. I was not comfortable going out on the road.

When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

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.

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

In the business world, I did fairly well, but wasn't happy. A bout of sciatica put me flat on my back. All I could do was read, listen to my mother's stories about the Sandovals, and daydream: a return to self. My writing career had begun.

If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.

I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.