Quotes About Adaptation

I always just read the play and find a world. That world must honour the play, enhance it, and maybe shine some new light - not satirise or try to reinvent in a way that is placing the idea above the thing. The play is the thing.

I think the key to the longevity is being able to reinvent yourself and to adopt and incorporate different things into your character.

My favorite thing about beauty and fashion in all seasons is that it's a way to reinvent ourselves.

If you don't think of yourself as being someone who needs to go back to school, needs to reinvent yourself, then you're not able to do the thing you're passionate about. That's to create and invent and innovate.

In order for us to be successful... we have to be able to and be open-minded enough to reinvent ourselves every six months.

There comes a time in everybody's musical career that you have to regroup and reinvent yourself.

It can be a quick career if you don't perform properly. If some of these pros don't do something to reinvent themselves, they're going to go down the rankings as quick as anything.

There's a phase for everyone, where actors need to slow down and reinvent themselves.

What's so great about this industry is that you have to be able to reinvent yourself every day.

After making two big movies 'Chocolate' and 'Goal' with big stars and being completely involved with making ad films as such, the time had come to reinvent myself not only as a director but also as a human.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

'Younger' is about reinvention and how age is very much a state of mind. I think the show is ultimately about reinvention. I do think it explores, ultimately, the differences between generations, through the prism of reinvention. That reinvention is possible.

What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention.

We live in an era of reinvention: Madonna and everybody desperately trying to change their persona.

A little renovation and reinvention is a positive thing.

I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.

The great thing about being a woman is the power of reinvention.

If my 20s were a time when the way I looked was my calling card, then it feels as though my 60s will be a reinvention.

When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.

I think that the power of reinvention is very important.

I don't entirely reject the idea of efficient markets. It needs updating.

I mean, I'm an 'X Factor' reject presenting on Radio 2, what's going on?

People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.