Quotes About Adaption

We fiction writers have to preserve the right to wear many hats – including sombreros.

That's the risk you take if you change that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

A leopard Doesn't Change His Spots Over Night ~ Jay McKnight

I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!

I like playing a variety of roles and characters, as it forces you to keep challenging yourself.

I always try to look for variety in my work.

I have experimented with various genres of music, whether its rock, pop, slow songs, etc.

I actually get more conservative when I'm in Vegas.

I'm having everything. I'm a vegetarian, too. But in my mother's house, I eat whatever I'm served.

I don't think it exists anymore where you have to be a vegetarian or meat-eater. There's this beautiful gray area that we're all living in now; it just takes some exposure to the different ways to do it.

I love experimenting; as a singer, one needs to be versatile.

Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.

You always want to be innovating and creating what's next. Versatility is also really important for a producer.

After having played serious drama for so long, I needed to scratch the itch of versatility.

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

There are only two kinds of plans. Plans that might work and plans that won't work... you have to take a plan that might work and make it work.

You can't judge a man by the way he reacts when things go right, but by the way he reacts when things go wrong.

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

You make a record like 'Jump,' people are stuck in that world. They want you to keep making records like 'Jump.' People don't understand that you got to move on; you got to do something else. You have to evolve and go to something else. And most of the time, when it's time for you to move, other people are not prepared for that move.