Quotes About Adaptability

One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

I've had a lot of creative license; I improvise quite a bit. There's a lot I like to do that satiates my creativity, but at the end of the day, I just want to make the guy or gal happy who's directing the movie.

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

It's taken me quite some time to convince people that I can do shades of grey, and I've finally broken that ground.

Have you seen a marathon race? Some runners will be leading right from the first - but after the halfway mark, it is the runners at the back who take over while the early leaders fade out.

In racing you're not going to win every week, and we understand that.

Building a company is so much like racing a sailboat.

I think I feel a car like anybody else can, but maybe what makes me different is that I race so much that I have experience racing with a lot of different crew chiefs. I'm really easy to get along with and me not knowing anything about a race car, I know to just let them do their job.

There's times where I go off the rails like anybody else. For the most part, I try to keep it, 'Hey, this is what we're dealt and this is the situation, so let's make the best of it.' Keep a positive attitude.

Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.

For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.

I feel like I can move well on the clay. So if I need to get into a longer rally, I can.

I take random inspiration from everywhere.

At 185 in the UFC they had Rich Franklin and Anderson Silva, and I couldn't go to 205 - they had Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell and all of those big guys. I just wasn't mature enough, so if I hadn't fought at 170 I probably wouldn't have had the career I've had.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

Free music, to me, is music without boundaries. It's music that... says you don't have to play a blues in three chord change. See what I'm saying? Music that can go from any range.

To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends of my range as an actor.

I never really had long range plans. I take one season at a time, every day at a time.

I'm not fussy at all; I've been raised to adjust myself in any circumstance.

She's quite the professional, but I think the true Gaga - the magic of Gaga - is she knows how to dive into any element and really just be comfortable in her own skin.

Now, metaphorically, I sit at any table that I want. I can sit with the jocks, I can sit with the gang members, I can sit with the politicians, I can sit with the CEOs. My brand can fit anywhere.

People say I contradict myself because I come gangsta and teach at the same time. I don't want to be too much on either side, but I do want to speak to all audiences.

I'm a guy that, when there's something rolling out there, the predetermined rotations might go right in the garbage can.

I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.