Quotes About Adaptation

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

when life gives you lemons. Make yourself a screwdriver

This is my theory," she said. "If everybody is dressing formal, wear jeans. If everybody is wearing jeans, dress formal. Be different. They'll notice you.

You worked with what you had, you did what you could, and you made choices based on need.

Some people just stick to what they do, and it comes back to bite them in the butt.

Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

If you start adapting to audiences, you're really second-guessing the situation, and it becomes a bit more like cabaret.

I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.

The cage is bigger than the ring, and it's a little bit different.

I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.

I like California a lot more than New York these days.

I'd do whatever it takes to stay in California; maybe not L.A. because it's so crazy.

It was so interesting going to high school in New York. You get a callous to the city and an empathy for every type of person.

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again.

I can't hold a camera anymore.

Sometimes the character will go into a completely different direction than I expected once the cameras start rolling. That's what I love about what I do.

It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

Campaigns are about adjustments.

My music teacher who I was really close with, she helped me out a lot being away from home and going to school in Rhode Island. She was like a mother to me on campus. But she was the theater teacher and she didn't have anyone to play Aladdin, so she asked me if I would.

A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

I love the sun; I would have trouble living in Canada.