Quotes About Adaptation

I was onstage singing with Luke Bryan, and he started singing a song that we hadn't rehearsed. Both Luke and myself just winged it.

The best thing about theatre is that every time we get onstage, the show is new.

The crowd really controls how I am onstage. One show, it might be a lot of young people, super-high-energy dancing. I mirror that. Other shows, it's much more calm.

I'm always making micro-adjustments onstage, listening to the audience, and what a crowd is like can be infectious.

Growing up on a set is completely different than coming onto a brand new set for the first time.

On one level, all of the characters in 'Game of Thrones' grow out of George R.R. Martin's imagination. Therefore they are his. As long as they are in the novels they are his. But the moment they step forth onto the TV screen, they become filtered through the showrunners. In a business sense, it's the same way with comics.

When I walk onto a film set, I become frightened and nervous. There's all this equipment, all these people, and most of them do things you don't know how to do. I didn't come from a film background.

Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a complexity that I had not anticipated.

When I was growing up, I didn't like cheese. I had to wean myself onto cheese.

One cannot afford to be nostalgic about the past and cling onto it.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

The country is moving to a more open society.

My life is unrecognisable compared to what it was - 'Game of Thrones' has opened doors that were never there before. But it can be dangerous to see it in those terms, I think. It's best to take it as it comes and work as hard as you can, and hopefully the other things fall into place.

'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.

I have been successful as an opener, but who knows, maybe I would have been more successful in the middle order.

I've seen 13, 14-year-olds opening CDs as though they're records from the 1920s, going 'Look at this - there's a little book!'... That makes me think the format has probably had its day.

Opening up is something I have to learn how to do if I'm going to be in this business.

The first album was more born from busking - they were the 'me-and-my-guitar' songs. Going out on the road and opening for big acts changes you. You look out at those audiences and start to think, 'OK, I need to write some music that's a little bit bigger.'

I think by me playing inside-out, it's really been opening up that 3-point shot for me.

Opening for the first time in Test cricket, I scored 128 against the likes of Sarfraz Nawaz and Imran Khan.

There's no way in the world I would have thought about opening New York Fashion Week or walking in London.

My way of playing has changed, the way I view points and look for different openings, certain opportunities.

If we think something is not good, we'll openly say it. If there's choreography, for example, and it feels like it's going to be too taxing on our physical resources - as I said, we're not getting any younger - we'll say so, and then we'll make those changes.

I love the American openness and use of language; I just don't know how to be that way.