Quotes About Adaptation

We're improvising a lot of this, which amazes people.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

I've never been good at improvising.

More than the hits, flops will have an impact on my career. In fact, flops helped me shape my career. They made me look at things from a different angle.

In my opinion, the most dangerous thing an artist can do in this day and age is not embrace the present.

In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

When you look at me in the beginning of '96 and at the end of '96, I'm two different people.

In the beginning, learning a new position is not easy.

In the beginning, every little thing used to bother me. Now, even the worst sounding things sound like a joke because I've seen everything.

In the beginning I wasn't playing as well and had to feel the court and got better and better as I tried to play aggressively and it turned out pretty well.

In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.

I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.

But we did the best we could and in the end some of us had to get day jobs and start fresh.

If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.

I think if companies start reinventing themselves and focus on the customer experience more, they will win out in the end.

In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few seconds out of water. That's how evolution works. Spectrally. We are all mermaids.

People seem to expect when that happens, for players to be brought in that are so much better than the ones that have left. In the end they might be better but in the beginning they might be worse. Because they all have to gel and get to know each other and get to know you.

I have always said that I am one to look forward rather than back; what has happened in the past I can't change now. What is forward, I can.

I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.

Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

I don't live in the past.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.