Quotes About Adaptation

You're molded by the period you were brought up in.

I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

I think of workshopping as a way to read your own work through the eyes of others - a scene that you write gets refracted by those around you, and suddenly you have several different readings of it, each with a different momentum for how it might be retooled or reshaped.

A lot of top fighters, what do they do after they retire from fighting? They're real popular. Like Tito Ortiz. They've got so much momentum, they're so popular and then they fall off the face of the Earth. They should take acting lessons. They should keep their fans.

Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.

For my grandmother's generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it's the iPhone. And that's enabled us to do so many different things more efficiently at home.

It's a different playing style than at Monaco; there were two of us in midfield there, and here at Liverpool, there's three.

Monk's gone, and House is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off.

When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.

I learned a lot about self-reinvention. How you can be born Milton Sternberg in the Bronx and then become Monroe Stahr in Hollywood.

I've definitely evolved into a monster.

In Montana, whether you're a farmer, whether you're a fisherman... you know that the climate is changing, and we need to do something about it.

I get the job with the 49ers, and I'm four years removed from my high school coaching days, and I'm going to be coaching Joe Montana, and I'm going, 'How do I approach this? How am I going to do this?'

You give a team a month - three weeks - to get together, and you're going to make mistakes. You're just not going to be as sharp.

I don't listen to music that I won't like in a month.

I used to go to a regular, private high school, but I was only there a week out of the month. I was out of school three weeks out of the month, and so I would have everything faxed to me and e-mailed, and it made it really difficult.

You have to immerse yourself into a product and use it in order to really understand it and that's why I have a new cellphone every month or two.

When I played 2 months in county cricket, I learnt a lot.

I really miss having a routine because now I've been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

I try to read the audience, see what they're in the mood for.

During script narrations, if I feel the screenplay mood jumping abruptly, I tell the director, and they work on it.