The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.
We, as individuals, are defined by the choices we make. Some of our decisions can have very significant consequences and totally change the courses of our lives.
What wouldn't have happened to me if I hadn't ended up in Hartford, Connecticut.
At some point in your career, maybe you, too, have made the life-altering decision to start anew. If so, you know first-hand how exciting, challenging, and sometimes disorienting the first 30, 60, 90 days can be.
Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.
There's no one defining moment that kills you or makes you.
This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.
If I had moved to Tokyo, I might even have become a completely different person... although, ever since the start, I've never wanted to move to Tokyo. I just can't handle there being so many people.
I am very interested in the small decisions people make that do set you on a different road in your life. As much as we have influence over what kind of person we're going to become, there are little tests along the way.
We're all put here for a reason. And one little movement changes your way of life.
On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions that shape your life.
The journey from engineering to acting just happened. I guess some things are meant to be.
We have a choice every day to do whatever we do, and that choice is quite scary because it could absolutely change everything about our lives. It's important to keep reminding myself that I have a choice.
There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.
Little changes and little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life.
Actually, after three years, I realised that the opening scenes of 'Polladhavan' were inspired by 'Lolita,' in which the lead character says, 'Why did I meet her? My life would have been different had I not met her.'
Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.
Now we have two choices in life: have sex with the same person forever or risk a terminal disease. Either way, your life is over.
You do something when you're 20, and you're still paying for it when you're 40.
We all have points in our lives where two roads present themselves and we have to make a decision very fast. We don't know how it will impact our lives, but it usually does.
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.
When you were a teenager, everything's kind of drawn in primary colors; everything's big, and everything's life or death.
