Quotes About Adaptation

I'm getting to be an expert in finding hairdressers in foreign cities.

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

I don't take time off. If you've been out of a house for six months and then you come back in and you turn the light on, it might explode. It isn't used to be used. I keep my energy going. It's not a shock to the body when I start playing again. I don't have to 'get in shape.'

Often times, when you find an edge, it's not for very long. People figure it out, so you have to try and exploit it, quickly, while you can.

My view is we should be doing everything we can to come up with ways of exploiting the current technology effectively.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

Usually, in theatre, you're adapting existing material or creating an entirely new play. With the 'Cursed Child,' we have been given the unique opportunity to explore some of the most cherished books and beloved characters ever written, yet work with J. K. Rowling to tell a story from that world that no one yet knows - it's exhilarating.

Is it safe and sane to only have one political and economic system by which everyone in the world can live? Or can we explore and share? God never made one of anything.

I do kind of think there's a bit of an overemphasis on - in the community - on sort of achieving ever-so-slightly better state-of-the-art results on particular problems, and a little underappreciation of completely different approaches to problems that maybe don't get state of the art because it's actually super hard and a pretty explored area.

'Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into writing film scripts. 'Tigerman' is shorter, tighter, more crafted.

Being exposed to the diversity of music I was as a kid made me the actor I am today. As an actor, you have to adapt and do so many different things.

Obviously, it's not the same when you play at wing-back. You don't have to defend as much. You don't get exposed in defensive situations as much as when playing as a full-back, so it is definitely different, but it is not something that it is totally alien to me.

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.

Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.

I did a lot of screaming in 'The Originals,' and I hurt my voice so badly that I said, 'I can't scream if you want me to be able to work for, like, the next three days.' So, what I usually do is that I scream once in the season, and we'll just use that scream, all throughout, or extend it, or do whatever we need to do.

You can have a good run for several years with one company and then be able to extend it with another.

Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.

What I wear is an extension of how I feel, so it's always changing.

We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.

I view myself as an experimentalist. I've tried everything in the book, and I have replicated results to one extent or another.

I moved around so much when I was younger that I sort of had to have this type of exterior; you know, I was afraid of getting hurt.

'The Walking Dead' is an extraordinary thing.