Quotes About Adaptation

When I worked on 'Xena' I had to concentrate on fighting like Lucy Lawless. In 'Kill Bill' I not only had to stop fighting like Lucy, after three years of copying her moves, but start fighting like a Wu Shu martial artist. I'd never done Wu Shu before so mentally it was a massive challenge.

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.

Once, I wanted to be a movie star. I just had to wait until I turned into an actor and then things started to work out.

I should have realized that what's good for movie stars doesn't work for a Cabinet secretary's wife.

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

I felt very comfortable moving from aerospace to automobiles.

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

My father was a coach, so there was a lot of moving around, not having a base.

Your mind is just constantly moving, thinking of different scenarios, not only on your team but their team too, trying to figure out things they are doing.

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

When you've been Bayern for so long and it's your second home, moving away from here is not easy.

It was really tough being 14 and moving away from home.

Today, loss is something everybody feels. It could be the loss of a friend moving away. It could be your best friend moves to the other side of town or his family does. It's a loss.

In high school, it was tough for me moving away, going to school and practice while my English wasn't that good and living with a family that I didn't know at all. I had to make a lot of sacrifices, but my dad always told me if I wanted this - if I really wanted to get to the NBA - that I would have to make sacrifices in my life.

If I feel like things are getting into a routine, I want them to be different. I need to keep improving and keep moving forward.

Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

I've added to my abilities since moving to Bournemouth. You are always having to re-learn how to be a centre-forward as the game is moving forward.