Quotes About Adaptation

I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek!

Approach your business partners with concepts that they can get their heads around, and try to respond to their needs.

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

One thing my old improv teacher taught me is when you're not in the improv scene and you're standing back watching your partners, you ask, 'What does the scene need?'

I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.

Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.

But, having said that, believe me, as you get older, the parts dry up. They get less and less.

It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.

I definitely used to be a party girl.

I thought that the older I got, that partying would change - and it has - in the way that now I know how to party.

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.

I am a 10th class pass in Hindi. From 7th grade to 12th grade, I was in Delhi; before that, I was abroad. I came in not knowing a word of Hindi in 7th grade and learned Hindi and passed the exam in 10th. I think I was north of 50 percent, so I feel very proud of that accomplishment.

I've done a few American accents. I've maybe passed a test. But I don't know if it makes things easier or not.

I tend to start books with a very broad outline, but I always leave room for happy accidents. With 'The Passenger,' there were perhaps too many of those.

It's night by night, just figuring out watching film on different passes I can make, and the ball will find you and it comes back to you, but it opens up the floor for other guys too.

If we can't get a shot after five passes, what's Ihe use of trying to set up a shot at all?

The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.

Every few hundred years in Western history, there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society—its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions—rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time. —Peter Drucker

There is a strong probability that the hot manager of today will be the cold manager of tomorrow, or at least the day after tomorrow, and vice versa. This