Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore. Pete Carroll anymorefootballhard Change image and share on social
Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget. Taraji P. Henson bikeforgetmom Change image and share on social
Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day. Smokey Robinson artistdaymotown Change image and share on social
Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist. Smokey Robinson artistmotown Change image and share on social
Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails. James MacArthur explainfailgive Change image and share on social
Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential. Nicole Sullivan idiotopenpotential Change image and share on social
Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way. Gus Van Sant directfilmform share on social
Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner. Gail Collins boehnerdefendentry share on social
