Quotes About Adaptation

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else.

He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.

You don't pick your family, you take what you're given and you make the best of it.

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.

We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me.

Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.

The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.

Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.

I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.

Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

We've had four or five casts in three years. There was a point when I thought the Department of Children and Family Services was going to show up at my door!

I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.

My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.

There are all different kinds of ways to define a family, and we have to take that into consideration when practicing family law. The law, they say, is always the last thing to change.

They are doing away with drive-ins. Now where are the teenagers going to go to not watch a movie?