Quotes About Adaptation

There's a new grievance every day to write about.

I think you grieve different elements, you grieve your wife who's gone, you grieve the fact she had cancer and you had to watch her die, you grieve the fact the life you built isn't going to be the same as the one going forward. All these different elements hit you at different times.

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

It's a tough grind sometimes. Playing 82 games and the travel, it can wear you down. It's definitely something you have to learn and adjust to. If you don't, you can play your way out of the league very quickly.

Just being in Europe was a grind.

I think Formula One is - there's a lot of differences from track to track, grip levels, tyre compound, so you always have to press the reset button and work from scratch again.

I tend to wear the moulds in training, but I'll always wear studs in games, as I feel like I get more grip.

Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre at all. We didn't talk about John Ford or Sergio Leone, even though we like their films. Really, we were driven only by our enthusiasm for Charles Portis's book.

Once I started training at the Performance Center, getting in the groove of the schedule, and really getting used to that, I really loved it because I'm big with routine.

You really don't get into a groove until you play two or three games.

Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.

I see it in a lot of period pieces where everybody is standing and talking, in a stilted, archaic way, instead of being loose in the world. So, I try to do a little bit of research, just so that I can feel like I'm grounded, but then I try to bring as much of my human understanding that I can, under the filter of it being 1865.

If you go from being a kid at school to being on £60,000 a week, that can be hard to deal with. I didn't have that, and maybe that's kept me a bit more grounded than some players.

Children need continuity as they grow and learn.

There's a certain amount of world-building that I hold off on until I need it for the story. World building in advance isn't really my thing, maybe because I didn't grow up playing RPG's.

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.

I have grown up watching Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan and the likes. These are actors who have changed with time. They have no shelf-life. They have immortalised themselves because they have evolved with time.

My goals for myself have changed as my career has evolved and as I've grown as a writer.

When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations.

Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.

To be an actor, I had to learn Marathi. I used to always grudge why there are so many alphabets in Marathi.

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.