Quotes About Adaptation

It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.'

I've always learned in show business: you take the job.

We have to show people we are willing to adapt to their world.

In our business, you never really know who you're going to get and who you're going to work with. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's awful, and you gotta do what you gotta do.

I'm not very good with some of the more modern songs that have an awful lot of 'doo wah wahs,' if you know what I mean, because I can't do anything with them.

I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.

I think every actor can agree that when you've been playing a certain character for awhile - no matter what that role is - it's always attractive to try something that's different.

It just takes me awhile to get comfortable in any situation.

I think the beauty of the concept of 'The Bachelor' is that it will never be the same thing twice. I think it will be a very different show with me.

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

There are a lot of running backs who see the first level, the D-linemen, and they can't really see the second level.

It's always easier for people to face backward than to face forward.

You can't look forward and backward at the same time.

I practice going backward all the time.

If you keep looking backwards, you don't go anywhere.

Sometimes you try to change, and you go backwards.

I'm growing up backwards.

Sometimes you cannot do anything because the guy in front of you is playing well and he's doing the right things to make you play in a bad way.

You want things to go well at a new club but life isn't that easy. So if you play badly you have to work more.

I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.

Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my first film. It doesn't matter what you know in your head and what you've been taught until you're there and doing it; it's a whole new ball game.

Back in the Eighties, I used to write ballads on my acoustic guitar, so it seems very natural to me to go back to a little singing.

When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.

I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.