Quotes About Adaptation

After secondary school, the big thing to do was apply for uni in England or Scotland and then just stay there.

If I knew what the next big thing was, I'd be doing it now.

In 'Begum Jaan,' a lot of people did not recognize me as my look was different. That is the big thing and it means you have gone so much into your character.

If you're in big-time situations all the time - like for me, high school was big-time situations, college, big time situations - you adapt.

I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?

The biggest challenge for everyone is getting back into game speed.

Learning how to slow the game down is the biggest thing.

For me, the biggest thing is to adjust from college to a professional setting.

Once you get the hang of how all this works, it's no biggie. It's baseball, man. It's baseball.

I've been a bilateral amputee since birth and don't know anything else.

I am bilingual.

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.

I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America.

When you move around a lot, there are little bits of you from everywhere. I mean, my father's French, and I speak French, and there's a kind of struggle in me that says, 'I'd like to be French.' But I've never been fully part of that culture, that role.

I can't sit around and be bitter all the time. I have to go out and create my own little world, one that won't change when I'm not ready for it to.

I was an electrician, and now I'm in 'Electric Dreams.' It's almost bizarre.

I'm playing jazz throughout the song 'Black Sabbath.' That's what it is there. I mean, I'm moving some other things around, but that is forever in there.

I have a Blackberry which I use, but I am one of those people who can only type on it with one hand.

The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.'

We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according to plan.

I think a lot of me trying to blend in was me co-opting the racism that was used against me in a way - being OK with it.

What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.

Being able to blend with the new kids and the youth will give you longevity and will put legs on your career.

Even now, I change my style and clothes from one day to the next, but during high school I blended in. I think a lot of people are that way. I guess that's why I can write about an array of characters.