Quotes About Adaptation

I have changed a lot as a person coming into showbiz and meeting a cross section of people from all walks of life; it was an amazing experience. But that's the privilege I had of being early into showbiz.

I've had a lot of characters and personalities, accents and different aspects from all the walks of my life.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.

Well, what I try to do is throw as much mud on the wall as I possibly can and just see what sticks, what shines as quirky or more interesting that the others, and I try to cling onto that one, somehow join a link from there to there.

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

If we're more successful with me coming off the bench and we're winning games, hey, I'll ride with it.

I've never complained about coming off the bench, not playing or not playing a lot.

It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.

I'm not used to being on the bench.

Coming off the bench was an adjustment for me.

Actually I think it's better for me to come off the bench, because for them first couple of minutes when that first five is in there, you can see the little things and what you need to do when you get in there.

Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.

People, they don't know how to bend; they just break.

It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.

The idea of getting a lifetime job, and making $100,000 a year, with benefits, is dead and gone. It's over. And it may never come again. That's a very scary thought for a lot of people.

I am learning Bengali because I want to dub for myself.

I was never hell bent on being an actress forever, but I will not say that I won't work again.