The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
'Dr. Quinn' came along when I turned 40, so my career actually peaked then.
I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill.
When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.
I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.
Midlife is a time of explosive change, particularly for women. It's just like experiencing another puberty. The changes that take place in your body are enormous and, like puberty, you have to throw off the past.
When people say you're going to be so different at 22 or 23, when you're 16, you're like, I'm so not! And then you change drastically.
Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.
Everything that I learned in the Navy, I took it with me into the next phase of my life.
I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.
You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.
Death is the supreme celebration on the road to freedom.
I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.
I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult.
My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
After I quit the U.S. Ski Team, there was a fair amount of, you know, grief that follows that, and I just wanted to take a year off. And I had a friend that lived in Los Angeles, said I could crash on his couch. And so I just kind of did the first really spontaneous thing I'd done in my young adult life.
When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.
When I was 17, I went to Brigham Young University. That was the first time I had set foot in a classroom.
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
When I turned 50, I asked some of my girlfriends, all actresses of the same age, 'What are we going to do now?' I wanted to go live somewhere for a while, learn archaeology, or take part in healing the world on some level. I wanted to dig deep and say, 'Who am I now? What do I have to offer? What do I have to learn?'
It is time to be old To take in sail.
I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.
When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.
