Quotes About Adaptation

Since Nandita Das comes from a different school of acting, I had to behave in a particular manner. Then with the boys - Rahul Dev, Purab Kohli and Akaash Saigal - it was another ball game.

It is not easy to behave and be someone else if one does not prepare well for it.

There are absolutely ways to manipulate behavior, because our behavior is endlessly being manipulated by the world around us.

In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.

I've always been confident in my rugby ability but with England I had to adjust my behaviour.

I have changed my behaviour on the pitch in England. Here referees talk to the players all the time. I think it is nice.

Coming into London having the experience of Beijing is really good.

Going into Beijing I was like 'what's a Paralympics?'

I take every season as it being different.

I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.

I've had people - I've seen people do routines that I knew they didn't take from me but they had - because for whatever reason I had stopped doing it a long time ago. There's no way they would have heard this bit. But it ends up being pretty much the same thing.

For me, Paralympic sport isn't about being the best human being. It's about being the best human being with that particular level of disability.

I'm such a team player, and I love being in a group setting. You're used to looking to your left and right and someone being there. When you're out there on your own, you're like, 'Oh, boy.'

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer.

I'm an actor who believes in looking different in every film of mine.

I try, when I go into places, not to belittle what's gone before, because I know how difficult it is to manage, and everybody does it differently.

Growing up outside your own country makes you feel that you don't belong when you return, so you feel free to make friends with whomever you like.

I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong.

I moved to the States from London when I was 12 years old. My father was in a band and wanted to tour, so we moved here, but it wasn't until I moved to Williamsburg and had my son that I felt like I finally belonged.

Getting into acting was a challenge for me as I belonged to a political family.

I always felt once it goes into movie land, the book belongs to someone else.

Guess what? When it comes right down to it, wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that's what you've wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right now, that's what's on your mind. Whatever has happened to you, it has already happened. The important question is, how are you going to handle it? In other words, Now what?

I began my adult life with the hypothesis that it would be possible to become a Stone Age native. For over 30 years, I programmed and conditioned myself to this end. In the last 10 of it, I would say I realistically experienced the physical, mental, and emotional reality of the Stone Age. But to borrow a Buddhist phrase, eventually came a setting face-to-face with pure reality. I learned that it is not possible for human beings as we know them to live off the land.