Quotes About Adaptation

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben.

Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.

I lived in New York from 1989 to 1996, and I feel like I just got used to carrying everything around.

Like with 'Outlander' as well as with 'Agent Carter,' I had never heard of 'Outlander' before I got the part.

Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.

Bollywood is a business more than an art industry. One has to play the game others play to carve your own path.

When I write songs, it's just me and a cassette player - or at least it used to be before smartphones - to quickly record a basic idea.

As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.

I don't get cast for every job and I understand that.

I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.

Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington.

Every era casts cancer in its own image.

Around the year 2000, businesses around the country went 'business casual.'

It took me a while to process myself as a cat - it's not something you see every day.

The value of catastrophic events is that they can help people face up to problems that are otherwise impossible to address.

Things can move so fast that you don't have time to catch your breath or think about the next move.

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

Every five years, there is a shift in cinema space, but we are slow to catch that. Young people understand that shift.

You can't just keep bottling the same thing over and over again and think the audience isn't going to catch on.

The catching position is hard. You have to find a way to do a lot of things, to be in the game. When you get older, when you're 38 years old, you have to find a way to be on the field.

When guys change their category, they've got problems with that, problems with everything. Not everyone can be ready for that.

Some guys train more, some guys train less; everyone needs to cater to what works best for them.

I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.