Quotes About Adaptation

Before you get to 'SNL,' you have your own sensibility. And when you get to 'SNL,' it's the show's sensibility.

I'm really impressed every time Kanye comes to perform at 'SNL' because he finds a new way to make that space work for him.

I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

Cement doesn't give as much as snow.

I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.

There are times when one certain snow condition is great for one particular brand of skis.

'The Road' was my first American film, my first film in the snow. The first of everything. So, I was jumping into it, and that was pretty grueling.

When I ski, I take both of my legs off and get into a sit ski: a ski with a custom seat that has been molded for me. I use my core and arms to propel myself on snow with help from ski poles.

I played on frozen pitches, on snow. I had only a couple of years indoor before I went to England.

Snowboarding is a huge part of my life, but I also feel like it's important to have a plan B or a back-up plan for after my career because I can't snowboard for my whole life competitively.

Snowboarding and skiing are big adaptive sports, so that's kind of a market that I wanted to make our equipment used for.

There's so many different ways to get yourself out there, a lot more options than when we first came out.

There's so many different ways to play Mozart.

I think when it comes to basketball, there's so many different ways you can affect the game.

So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.

I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in order to promote their new work, they have to constantly lean on their past. I don't want to be that type of artist... I see a lot of people out here doing really marginal music.

The whole industry is changing because so many people watch things on DVR, and they watch things on other platforms, and I think everybody is kind of scratching their heads about how this is going to play out.

There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.

There's been one movie star that would not work with me because of my height. I had so many people who had to stand on boxes when they do scenes with me.

So many people move in with somebody and try to hold on to who they were before they were with that person and that's not what the space is about. You have to allow it to become the both of you.

For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were like, 'We're east-coast. We're New Yorkers. This is just a place that we have to come to, but not by choice.'

I was Pee-wee Herman for so many years that it wasn't really a question that I didn't want to do other things.

I spent so many years shuffled around. I'm used to it and can deal with it.

I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight back, just based on playing 'Street Fighter' for so many years of my life. It's almost like I actually learned martial arts.