Quotes About Adaptation

I used to travel a lot as a kid and when I first moved to England I felt lonely and my parents were splitting up at the time.

Whenever a relationship doesn't go on the right path, it affects me in some form, but it hasn't spoilt anything for me.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

It was very difficult to leave Argentina when I was kid, so I only spoke Spanish for the first six years of my life.

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

I spoke Spanish when I was three, and then Maltese. I love dictionaries. I like foreigners. My dad moved every year before I was 14, and I learnt to like abroad. I'm not scared of change.

I spoke Franglais growing up.

Most of the black women who lived in the lower end of Vrededorp came from the countryside and were there to be near their menfolk who worked in the mines. They spoke neither English nor Afrikaans.

My dad is an ob-gyn - he's retired now - and he wanted to come to the States to make a better life, for opportunity. My mom said that, on the plane ride here, I did not want to speak a word of English - I spoke Tagalog. And then, after the first day of school, I didn't want to speak anything but English.

The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.

I started acting when I was really young. I came to the States and didn't know anyone, and I spoke with a weird Irish accent.

I spoke English when I moved to the U.S.A. but I had an accent. To get rid of it, I watched a lot of TV-shows and tried to repeat after the tv-hosts. I liked shows about hip-hop.

There have been a number of film, TV, and - actually - theater productions that have been based off of me. Pretty much none of them have ever actually spoken to me, and I die in most of them.

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.

When life gets you down, improvise as if crawling was part of the choreography.

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.