Quotes About Adaptation

I'm sure I acted differently after I got married, I know I did. But... people get married and things change. It doesn't mean that the band has to break up.

Rear-naked chokes are easy? Yeah, it's easy to get, but people are getting better at defending it.

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.

When you think you're on top of your game, you've got to change it, and keep evolving and keep getting better.

Every time you play a different role with different actors in different locations, you're developing a greater level of comfort in the act of doing this, which is why you're getting better all the time.

I was a good shooter in college, but it's a different level here in the NBA and I'm working on getting better.

The cars are always changing. The competition's cars are always getting better. Sometimes when you try to make them better, you make them worse.

I'm kind of a complainer, but not about getting old. I complain about, you know, something that can be fixed.

We're getting older and we can't party like we used to.

I'm getting older, more mature, and the game is slowing down each year.

If I grew up, you know, in the ghetto, like, and I wasn't taught any other way to talk or a way to act or other food to eat or just like anything like that, like, when I'm I supposed to do? You know, like, is there a class I'm supposed to take to learn how to be white, you know?

Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble.

As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.

All politicians, no matter how gifted, ultimately depend on circumstances for their success.

'Divorce' was kind of strange because I was going in and out of doing it while doing different movies! So, I kept returning to a set character and this set gig, and that was kind of interesting for me as an actor.

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

It's difficult to explain a giraffe to a Bolivian who lives on the Altiplano. But when they see one, I think they'll like it.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

Against Novak, it's really tough for me to play, I mean, because he doesn't give me any time. I don't really like to play against him because he has a game style which doesn't fit me at all.

I enjoy wicket-keeping in the shorter format. I think when we are bowling first, it gives me an idea of how the wicket is behaving.

With every advance, you have to look over your shoulder and know what you're giving up - look over your shoulder and look at what falls away.

I'm glad I did South films because I feel they have moulded me. They are really loud and are in a different language, so it's not easy.

People used to call me a one film wonder. I am glad to understand the dynamics and demographics of functioning in this industry.

If performance management were a movie, it will become less 'Gladiator' and more 'Moneyball.'