Quotes About Adaptation

I haven't found anything to complain about. But being Scottish, it won't be long.

I speak with a lot of players who have stopped playing and they go to the gym for two hours a day and say 'now I run 10km a day.' When they were still playing they would complain about running for 10 minutes!

It's a luxurious complaint to have as an actor, but playing the same character for many years can become routine.

Media wants to know everything. We are in this industry: we have to get used to it; we are still getting used to it. So I have no complaints. They are doing their job.

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

Playing 4-5-1, I could have all the liberty in the world - it was complicated to express myself.

I have come to terms with all the complications of my life.

When I compose an album, I don't think about how to adapt it on stage.

I've composed music for many remakes and they've all come out much better than the original.

As time has gone on, I've gotten bigger and bigger. My body composition has changed.

I had two roles for which I compromised.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

I can't work a computer.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

I'm trying to get through life without really knowing about computers, but I don't know if I am going to make it.

I don't bother with computers, although I have an electronic reader.

Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one.

As a player you get scrutinised and rightly so, sometimes it's what comes with a move that I've made. I've just got to take that on the chin and concentrate on me.

So, I am concentrating more on the batting aspect of my game and trying to get used to playing the anchor role.

There's been Hollywood interest in a lot of the stuff that I've done, but Descender's felt different right from the start for whatever reason. I don't know if that's because a lot of my other stuff's a little more idiosyncratic, and 'Descender' has a bit more of a high concept to it.

When television came out, there was concern it would kill radio.

I'd have to say that it kills me that there's a concern that 'Torchwood' has gone to America to become Americanised.