Second Career Quotes

Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an MBA, and I worked three years in grant management.

I went back to DJ'ing in 1987, and it's been an incredible second career for me. Plus, it's almost a parallel universe. If you don't go to underground clubs, you wouldn't know what I do or who I am. So there's been a whole new audience of people that don't even know I'm that 'Boy George', the one their mother used to like.

I did what I always wanted to do. Wrestling. - conquered that. Can't physically do it anymore. So now what? Maybe I'll paint. Maybe I'll write another book. Yeah, I'll try this acting thing and now actually concentrate on it and try and get better at it and take classes and get coaching and give it a shot.

When our career is over, when we retire and the basketball stops bouncing, we still have to find something else to do.

It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

It was the beginning of our second career. We certainly had a full career - 15 years at it - before it came out, but 'Eliminator' had a tremendous impact on us and the people who listen to us.

There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"

Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

Being retired is one thing, but staying retired is another. Even when I announced my retirement, I'm sure people thought I was going to come back.

I was in the family court for 25 years. And having started a second career, having a second act when you were 52 was something that I never thought would happen to me.

Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

Retirement is not in my vocabulary.

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

I quit when I was 52, and everybody was telling me that I was too young and I'd be bored - all of those things.

I need to retire from retirement.

When I look at character artistes, they begin after 40. For instance, Boman Irani took up his first film after he was 40. Since I too, am in my 40s, I think I am finally getting to be in my zone.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

As a professional player, I consider my career closed, but I don't want to exclude the possibility in the future that I may return, but not as a player.

I started as a writer. I didn't play music until late in life.

Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just 're-tiring' - put on some new tires and go on to do something else.

I already have a second career, running a property investment business with a friend.

When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over.