Quotes About Adaptation

In Chicago, I'd audition 3-4 times a week, but when I got out to L.A., there were, like, 4-5 a day, and my skin got really thick.

You know what it is, when I'm playing a role sometimes, I just tend to stay in that role. It's easier to maintain. We just shot a pilot in a very thick American accent. I feel like the character lives in me. Of course, my family tease me about it.

When you live in the Philippines or a country like that, you develop something of a very thick skin because you're confronted every day with all of the problems all around you.

My relationship with Twitter has evolved as my career has changed. The truth is unless you have a remarkably thick skin, as a creator, it's a very difficult place to be.

When you work in TV you have to develop a thick skin, and I have certainly grown used to criticism.

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.

In the case of 'The Book Thief,' my research was hearing the stories of my parents when I was a child. But I started changing the stories when I began moulding the book.

When you're an actor, you get your ideas from everywhere - even from someone on the street. We're total thieves!

I had to relearn how to ride a horse like an ape. I had to change how I jumped off and how I gripped them with my thighs and distribute my weight differently.

You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.

With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years.

As long as you can throw people a curveball, that's what you're looking for. Because the minute they can define you, the minute they think they know exactly who you are, is when it starts to wear thin.

I lived in Los Angeles for around 20 years. I love the place, but the driving can wear thin.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.

You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.