Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a train, and everything is different for him afterward. Better. Magical." "That's just a story." "So are we- we're stories too.
My life started being awesome five years ago.
I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.
The most important part of my life came in San Sebastian: my new family.
I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.
One day can bend your life.
Boxing gave me the discipline and took me away from the streets and away from the corners. It changed my life, you know. Boxing dragging me away from all the bad potential I had.
When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."
How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.
You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.
I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.
Getting the spot of 'Blue Peter' changed the path of my life.
The ideal 'New Yorker' profile is a person, an interesting person, at a critical point in his life.
I could've easily gone the other way, but luckily, I had football and the dream to play in the NFL so I could do something positive with my life.
There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
It was Dec. 22, 1981. I figured I had messed up enough, and I decided to have a little faith and let God take over. It definitely straightened my act up in a hurry.
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
Life is always at some turning point.
