Quotes About Transition

Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

Graduation is an important day. It is a significant achievement.

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

I lived a significant portion of my life before the Internet and smart phones.

I did actually have a deal with Columbia, but it became increasingly clear to me after signing with them that they didn't know what to do with me and I didn't know what to do for them, so we agreed to go our separate ways.

I had to take a break to set up my production company. Managing a production house is a different ballgame. It's not like signing a film and arriving on the set.

I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.

I don't want to act as if 'Harry Potter' wasn't the most amazing thing because it truly was, but it's also great personally that I'm starting to see signs that I can move on from it and do other stuff that hopefully people enjoy.

Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, 'How would you like to be the host of the Daily Show?' I get out the car, and I didn't have legs. You know in those movies where there's an explosion? But instead of the sound of the explosion, you hear the silence. That's literally what happened.

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.

Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that's why I worked so much in modelling, until I realised that the differences between acting and modelling weren't that great. I always say that modelling is a little bit like being a silent actress.

My father had been an avid fan of Chaplin during the silent film days, but when the talkies came along, my father lost all interest in movies.

Melvilasam' broke a short, silent phase in my career.

I think television will do the same thing to radio that talkies did to silent movies.

I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

I'm not looking at any stage stuff at all. I'm going to give that a break for a while, if not forever, because I've done a huge amount of stage stuff and if the possibility of working in pictures comes along, I'd be silly if I didn't grab it.

You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

People always tell me that redheads go silver. Long, silver-grey hair would be my ideal way of ageing.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.