Quotes About Adaptability

We have to make good use of the tools that fall in our lap, no matter how sharp they seem to our clumsy fingers.

I like to think my upbringing has made me pragmatic and thick-skinned, a coper and a realist

Personally, nothing would surprise me any more. If my father announced that he was really a Russian agent or my mother ran away with a circus knife thrower, I wouldn't raise an eyebrow.

Speed is the essence of war.

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.

Don't become too attached to your own myopia. Just because you've found a way to do things doesn't mean it's the way to do things. There are so many different ways in which to navigate this so-called life. Be open to experiencing more than one.

But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.

I've used soap dishes as ashtrays in the best hotels in the world.

I did everything, I thought I was going to be in marketing, then I thought advertising then I thought I was going to be an architect and then I was like 'you know what, let me just be a soap star!'

I won't say I'll never go back to a soap because an actor's life is so precarious. You can have the most wonderful patch where everyone wants to work with you, and in the blink of an eye the phone won't ring for a month, even a year.

I am not a soap star. I want to create a niche for myself through other mediums.

It's important to be a soccer player in the sense of the whole vision - if you put me at forward, I can do it, or if you put me in midfield, I can do it.

I write right-handed. I play soccer with my left leg. When I hold stuff - like a bag or a plate or something - it's better if I have it in my left hand.

With soccer, it's such a dynamic sport. It's important that however you play, you should be training like that.

A game of soccer is popular because its rules don't change often.

In high school, I was friends with everybody. I had my core group of friends, but I could flow through different social groups pretty easily.

Social media is an ever-changing world. You want to be ready if a certain platform becomes red-hot, and you don't want someone else taking your company name as his or her handle. That does happen!

I learned at an early age to be socially effective while practicing disappearing.

There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.

My job is to catch the ball no matter how they throw it - hard, soft, medium. You've got to be able to catch it.

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right.

I was a bartender, a hot-dog vendor, a cook, sold magazine subscriptions.

I did 'I'd Do Anything,' and then a play and then 'A Little Light Music.' I played jazz in a night club where nobody listened to me for two years. I sold cereal in a market for a while. I worked in a clothes shop in Brixton. But that's the life of an actor. You never really know when your next job is coming.