Quotes About Adaptation

If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.

I can be a mix of both. I don't have to be an Indian or an American. They're not mutually exclusive. It's something growing up I didn't know.

Whenever my friend says something cool, and especially if my team says something, like a cool line in English, I'll write it down, and maybe I'll rephrase or use in a different way or something.

No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.

The past is always recycled. I'm just taking what the people I looked up to did and translating it for my generation.

Part of making a relationship work is compromise and I think the idea of compromise in relationships is something that we lack in my generation.

When people ask me to describe my journey in Hindi cinema post-'Barfi!' I actually don't know what to say.

My journey into the world of work after that was a bit more piecemeal than I would have liked, and it took a while to find the place in the world where I truly felt I belonged.

Half my life is an act of revision.

I will take every constructive criticism, make it my own, learn from my mistake, and go forward.

Shooting movies has changed, and me too - I have changed. And then, every film I do, something in my mind, my soul, changes. My natural change, I change at the same time as the films, I think.

Certainly my time on 'Revenge' was great; it was a different character I'd never played before.

I arrived in Milan when I was 18. But my time in Italian football helped me to mature.

I had to learn to take my time in MMA, and I was just able to keep a clear head.

I am not gadgety at all. It's not that I'm appalled by technology, but I've taken my time acquiring any of it.

I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that.

Any audition that I have now, I feel like it's easier for me to learn the words because of my time on 'One Life to Live.'

In my time abroad, I learned to become a more complete player.

I think people have this idea that I just lived in my place in England and never left. During 'Looking,' I was in America for four years. I've got a green card. I spend half my time there. It doesn't feel like an alien world at all.

When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken.

'FlashForward' is definitely not a sci-fi show. It doesn't have the mythology of 'Lost.' We have one major event that happens that you are asked to buy into. After that, you're dealing with very human ripple effects - how people deal with it and how they come to terms with it.

People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.

All your mannerisms change easily when you have inch-long acrylic nails.

When I first came to New York I did nails, and I really didn't get a lot of money.