Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do. ”

I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it. ”

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times. ”

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience. ”

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life. ”

Harry Potter' changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mother's death. ”

Music and opera are a big part of my life. ”

Sometimes in life, things just fall in to my lap. I'm very blessed that way. ”

When I go visit my mom in the retirement community where my parents live, she has a bunch of friends, and she will say, 'These neighbors I play bridge with have a son with an idea,' and it goes from there. ”

I think it's a different experience for plus-size women in film and television to get clothes for events. It's just not as welcoming for us to get cool clothes that are, like, equal in glamour, in style, to what, I am going to say, 'small size' co-stars get to wear. ”