Quotes About Adaptability

Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true.

As you grow older, you become - everybody becomes - less inflexible and a little more accommodating.

Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

I want to be able to do the Olympics and then do the Paralympics after.

I think who I am as a person on and off the stage is always kind of the same thing, but I don't take a lot of things very seriously.

I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals.

I take my work one day at a time.

There are people who have been in this game much longer than myself. And one of the things that I've learned by way of just watching is to stay flexible because you never know what may pop up.

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

If there's one thing I don't have, it's an insular bone.

I have never won big fights just doing one thing, being one-dimensional.

When you're one-dimensional, someone can just focus on that and really stop that.

If you only play metal, it's going to be very apparent that you're a one-dimensional drummer.

You can't really be one-dimensional in this fight game. If you are, you're going to get knocked out or you're going to get finished. Either that, or you're just going to take a lot of damage and you're just not going to be able to last very long.

That is what I always said as I don't want to be one-dimensional; I don't want to just hit homers or have to walk or bunt to get on base.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

I've been online long enough to know if I don't like the first results I get, I go look for more.

I'm not someone who comes onstage and says, 'I'm rewriting this now.' I don't think it's fair to the writers or the director, or the other actors.

You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.

I don't work with a lot of pressure, you know? I don't think, 'Oh, this one has gotta work or I'm finished.' I just kind of get onto the next one.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

For me, it's all about keeping an open mind; if you are always learning then you are always improving.

I just have an open mind - that's the way I live my life, just crossing the bridge when I come to it.