Quotes About Adaptation

I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

You know, I feel like if I don't change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of.

I think when you first get a job, you're just trying to do what the last regime did, just to keep it going, as opposed to actually doing what you want to do.

Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

We can all do better. America is an entrepreneurial society. We had entrepreneurs who started our country. And they want us to think in fresh, new, different ways all of the time.

One of the things I'm concerned about is that I really want to make sure the races of all the characters are kept. I don't like it when black characters become white in movies, or things like that.

Jamie: "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me." Landon: "Including me?" Jamie: "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!"

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

The fashion editor as it used to be has changed. Now you have to wear many hats, and whoever tells you differently is wrong. Now you're on TV, whether you want it or not.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

I change myself a lot. Some roles you don't want to be big, bulky, muscle-y guy and some roles you want to be a lean, marathon-runner physical type. And some roles you just don't want to be in shape.

I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't wanna take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

For now realize that you can change anything you want, but you can't change everything you want.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

I think I am like everyone else in the music business these days - you have to adjust to the times and deliver whatever people want, and are using to consume the music.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.