Quotes About Adaptability

I tried working with the best of directors and producers. I tried being selective, but things didn't work out. Now, I am open to working with anybody and everybody who is good. Or I'll try to make it good. That suits me.

I can pull off a range of outfits from nice, edgy suits to more rugged, casual looks. Your look one day can be totally different than the next day, and for me, it's all about owning that.

I would love to work for the Indian Film Fraternity if the role offered suits my sensibilities.

For me, that's one of my strong suits here in the NBA with reading defenses, moving side-to-side, going to pick-and-rolls.

Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

Actors, who have no real sense of who they are or what they want, have long known that not just their gender but every aspect of their identity is on a spectrum. They can be anything they are asked to be. They aspire to a protean state, shape-shifting like high summer clouds.

Just because it's summertime doesn't mean you can't wear long pants and blazers - just make sure they're breathable.

I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to write first thing in the morning, every day. But sometimes I'm called to set before the sun comes up, or I've worked late the night before, or I'm on a plane.

If the plane lost all my luggage, and I was somewhere sunny like Ibiza, I would just get a bikini, shorts, T-shirt, and sandals. If it was somewhere colder like New York, I'd go for jeans, jacket, and a pair of Louboutins.

I don't complain when it's sunny.

No one believes this, but when I'm working, it's the same, whether I'm working on 'Bad News Bears,' 'Before Sunset,' 'A Scanner Darkly,' or 'Fast Food Nation.' I'm the same person, trying to make it work.

I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.

Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls.

The essence of this faith is freedom. Its goal is simply to make us good and wise. Its institutions should be as flexible as the needs of humanity in different times and places.

The public hero is sensitive to the needs of his time.

Fine fellows—cannibals—in their place. They were men one could work with, and I am grateful to them.

Keep your thinking in the present—don't count your chickens before they hatch, and you won't be so disappointed with a broken egg once in a while.

The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.