Quotes About Adaptability

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.

The most forward-leaning leaders are single-minded about creating company cultures that foster a true spirit of innovation.

There are very few actors who are truly good at improvising; that's a real skill.

I can play in six different positions where managers can trust me. It must give them food for thought knowing I can do a job in different positions.

We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

The truth is I try to take people as I find them.

It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.

A good cook can make something amazing out of even the blandest ingredients. Still, you don't want to eat the exact same dish every day.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.

I thought beforehand, if [Marie] Henein is going to be a shark, I'm going to be a jellyfish, because you can't catch a jellyfish. Not that I didn't want to be caught, I just wanted to present solid.

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!

Only when you get into TV and film, do people really want you to be a 'specialist'.

If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.

In my life and in my career, I really love to play different roles. I never want to play the same role twice.