Quotes About Adaptation

On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur.

Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously.

Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.

We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.

There are a lot of people out there who are exactly half extrovert and half introvert and they love to be extroverts as long as they have enough time to go off and figure it all out.

You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will be different every time.

And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

Change is the very fabric of our time.

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.

I think we need that to ground us as human beings. I would imagine after an extended amount of time, a vampire might stall a little bit.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.

You don't really think about [career] much, because in a way it seems like another time and a different person.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why.

We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television.