Quotes About Adaptation

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

A lot of my family going back were cowboys and barrel racers, and I'd say I'm 50 percent high fashion and 50 percent cowgirl.

The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.

I could take a cemetery and make all the tombstones beer companies. There's a lot of craft beers that came and went. A lot of them.

For me, not just the character of 'Ender', but the whole world is so beautifully crafted in the novel that I wasn't sure how it could be brought to the screen - but Gavin has done it justice, and he's done it amazingly.

You throw 40 times a game when you're first starting out, it's a crash course.

You do 'New Girl,' you play a character like Schmidt, you crave as an actor afterwards to just do something different.

I don't have, like, a huge effect on the crowd, I'd say. So not having fans isn't the craziest thing to me.

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

The earth's climate has been changing since God created it, with or without man. On that, we should all agree.

Evolution is good for optimising and that is well understood. But evolution also creates things that no one knew were even possible.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

There's something about coming up with something out of nothing. I work with somebody else's creation already, and I just try to make it better.

For any creative person, along with learning, unlearning is also important.

I think that as you evolve as a person and an artist, your creative process evolves and changes, too.

I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.

Life has a way of creeping up on us.

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

We learnt a lot from county cricket - even if we did not earn stacks of money from it.

Guys are playing a lot of limited overs cricket and not making that adjustment when it comes to the longer version and pay a price for that.

The first time I played Test cricket, I did OK because I had no real expectations, I was just going to enjoy it. Then I lost that.