Quotes About Adaptation

I wasn't sure if I would survive in the film industry in the beginning. So, I gave myself six months to see if things fall in place, and luckily, soon after I moved to Mumbai, I began getting modelling and acting offers.

Not much changed post-'Raazi.' I didn't get too many offers.

I got 'slotted' and started getting offers similar to the role I had in 'Maryada.'

I got my first break in 'Mohabbatein.' After that I didn't get any interesting offers, so I took a course in interior designing.

When somebody offers you a role which you might not have done for a long time then it becomes a challenge for you.

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?

The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.

It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9.

My father was an army officer who left the forces when I was six and never really fitted back into civilian life. My mother had five children and a mother with Alzheimer's, who lived with us, so I imagined that she had a lot to do.

I never envisioned multimillion-dollar offices for ECW.

My biggest problem when I was younger was trying to balance my ability with what the team needed me to do to officially run the offense.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public.

Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they've always been.

I used to be a mean guy once I got in the league - to officials. And then I've gotten a little nicer. It has helped.

I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, 'Oh, what was that like? That must have been hard.' And you go: 'No, it wasn't.' It was just completely actually normal because the new norm seems to be whatever you make of it, doesn't it?

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

Now, when you've been in the band for three years, you get used to the position, in a sense. I don't think about it every day like, 'Oh my God, I'm the singer of Nightwish!'

You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little like, 'Oh my God! Oh no, bugs!' and I had to say, 'Honey this is fine. This is their world and it's all part of being in the country.' I realized, 'Oh my God, my girls are really city girls.'

What was called extreme 20 years ago definitely isn't extreme anymore. When I started, I remember people saying, 'Oh my God, I can't walk in that!' It was like, three inches - they look like kitten heels now.

I remember, my very first day at a new school, a bird pooped all down my back. It was like any other day of school except everyone was like, 'Oh my God, you're from the movie 'Big Daddy,'' and I had bird poop all over me.

Whenever I get any of the 'Game of Thrones' scripts, it's always like, 'oh my God, how am I going to do this?' It's a sort of performance anxiety about being able to do a good job.

It is not something I ever envisaged doing when I set out - thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'd love to be a third-choice keeper' - but your situation changes as your career goes on.