Quotes About Transition

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.

Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.

I'm not as good a singer as I am an actor. So that's why I - the stories I like so much is because I've been a story teller for a long time. I started as a singer and found out I didn't have a very good voice. That's the reason I went into acting.

The day before 'Beverly Hills Cop' opened, I was at a branch of my bank, and the teller asked me for two pieces of identification. Four days after it opened, I was being waved to on the freeway.

They keep telling me that my flow's up to date, you know. I guess they thought I was gonna come back sounding... old.

Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.

This is the time it all starts, I'm telling you. Like, 16, I mean, forget it. You could just get beat up, you could go through these grueling schedules.

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.

No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you.

For me, I had just come from kids telly, 'Dancing on Ice' was the first grown-up telly I had ever done.

I did Kannada when I was in college. I wasn't even sure of what I was doing. I started figuring out my career in acting when I began doing Telugu and Tamil films.

The fact that I have done films down South didn't boost or hamper my chances here. In fact, I was still shooting for both my Telugu films when I met Ashu sir for 'Mohenjo Daro.' During the audition, he gave me five scenes with lengthy dialogues. Once I cleared them, he gave me a song to dance to. So, my Bollywood entry was no cakewalk.

When I was young I did not know about the Telugu film industry. Then I forayed into it and one project led to another.

I am very grateful to Telugu movies, as they have been the main reason for my entry into Bollywood.

I never planned to become a dancer, but I became one. The same thing happened with acting and direction. I remember I was doing the choreography of a film, and the producer came and offered me to direct the film. It was in Telugu, and that is how it started.

Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.

There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.

I love a good Roy Rogers or Shirley Temple, and I had to give those up. And Philly cheesesteaks. I love Philly cheesesteaks, and now they really aren't around anymore.

I grew up in West Philly, and I took an acting class at Temple University there. Then, after school, I moved to San Francisco.

No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.

Pace is just how fast we can get the ball from one end to the other. It's not necessarily how fast we can shoot. It's just a tempo thing.