Sarah Cooper Quotes

I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

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

It's rare, in my opinion, that we get to see someone who is in his late thirties, with a wife and children who he has to support, realizing that what he is doing is not fulfilling him in a way that he really wants. He knows what will and he goes after it.

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

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.

Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.

At 17, I realized that it's going to be a tough decision to make, but I had the clarity of thought to walk out of cricket and try my luck in acting.

You can't let regret stifle your creativity.

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

I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.

I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

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

'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

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.

Finally, in my early 30s, I started writing fiction for the first time as an adult. That felt so scary, and I spent a few years feeling miserably 'behind' my high-achieving friends. But I persevered and obviously have no regrets.

I left an office at the top of the Pan Am Building, a nine-room apartment, and a farm in Vermont because I was aching inside. It took an analyst to tell me I could write a note of permission to become a musician and sign it.

I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.