Quotes About Adaptation

It's like my career is divided in phases. There comes a phase when I only do Tollywood movies, back to back, and then there is a phase when I do only Hindi films.

All kids are fussy eaters - they go through phases where they'll only eat red food or they just want to eat porridge. With fussy kids, the best thing to do is use what they do like and work around it.

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.

The original 'About Last Night' was phenomenal.

Schools can ebb and flow. It can be phenomenal one day, and then you hit fractions, and it falls apart.

There's a reason that football players, that still choose to come over to train MMA. They're professional and phenomenal freak athletes and they know how to work as professional athletes. They know how to get better and know how to improve.

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.

For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.

Coaching - get a guy like Phil Jackson, you expect the coaching to change right away and things to change right away. Ultimately, it takes a lot of time.

I had a big part of my life in the theater in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's changed, but I love it.

Part of the problem when I was doing 'How I Learned to Drive' is I would see my kids one night a week for six months, and that was just too hard. We moved to Philadelphia after we lost our house in the earthquake, the '94 Northridge earthquake.

The name of the show was 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' not 'Philip and Viv of Bel-Air.' If you didn't want to walk away from the best job in the world over a petty issue, you accepted the way it was.

I like to try to change things up a bit in the way that actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman or Michael Fassbender did and do.

Coming from the Philippines to the U.S. did shape me in that it gave me perseverance.

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.

I learned Neil Young songs, Bob Dylan songs and older songs. It wasn't until I moved to Philly that I had aspirations to maybe forming a band.

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.

Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.

In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.

I used to have a lot of philosophies of acting; they all fell apart over the years.

Philosophy changes day by day.

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.