Andrea Seigel Quotes

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.

It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

I always wished I could move around and switch schools. It was hard to have these radical transformations. You'd think, 'I will be a totally different person tomorrow,' but it never worked.

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

We don't know what change is because we don't know what the hell we are. If I wake up tomorrow and do the exact opposite of everything I do today, am I a changed person? Or am I simply the same person who decided to try something different?

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

'Younger' is about reinvention and how age is very much a state of mind. I think the show is ultimately about reinvention. I do think it explores, ultimately, the differences between generations, through the prism of reinvention. That reinvention is possible.

I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.

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.

There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.

They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

For 35 years, I've said, 'I'll never go solo.' But after a period of time - and this isn't just for an artist, but for anybody - all the things you never wanted to do eventually become the only things left that you haven't done. So they start looking pretty interesting.

I think it gets a little harder as you find more success. As success happens, you have to figure out this question of 'What I am going to do next that stands out?' Because then you get seen as 'this thing,' which is a part of you. But it's not really you.

I learned a lot about self-reinvention. How you can be born Milton Sternberg in the Bronx and then become Monroe Stahr in Hollywood.

I think it's important to change and not be associated with your character too much.

In America, we can reinvent ourselves - we're encouraged to.