Quotes About Metamorphosis

Coming from 'V' into 'Homeland' was a really big change and the best gift as an actor you can get - which is to transform so drastically from one genre to the next, from lizard to human being!

I never improvise. I create the character and transform into it.

I like women who transform themselves. It's what I do.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

I've always been obsessed with the art of transformation.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

Transformation in real life is extraordinarily incremental, and that's all I'm going to say.

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.

I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element.

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.

Like many confused and evolving humans, I live in constant danger of transformation.

Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

We have all seen werewolf transformations hundreds of times on screen.

I am obsessed with the idea of transformation. I have been very lucky so far to play very different roles - and I would love for that to continue.

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

I care more, and I think readers do also, for characters in a state of transformation.

There's definitely something transformative about clothes.

I think where a lot of the stuff came from is that it started as something else and then it was transformed into something that worked in the context of a song that I might have been working on.

I am playing the character of Sanjana in 'Race 3' and it is very a dark character in the initial phase of the film but towards the end, it gets transformed into a positive character.

My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.