Quotes About Transformation

My awkward phase can be summed up in three words: Clear. Braces. College.

I've grown up on TV, and there were some phases that weren't pretty.

Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?

One thing I love about Lady Gaga is I feel like her sound is always evolving and changing with her and her phases of life.

I've had people that I've given up on, kicked out - situations where I was becoming part of the problem because I was sort of enabling so I said, 'Godspeed, farewell.' And they've come back to me four years later and they're in a CDAAC program or they're getting a PhD.

I think it's an amazing thing, the way people can change and open up. It shows how humanity is still alive in the world and how we can get better. We're the most adaptable, phenomenal machines ever created.

Death is a dying industry with an economic phenomenon.

In Los Angeles, we've seen a phenomenon where a school will go from one that no one will go to, to within three years becoming the 'hot' school. I've seen this over and over again.

It's about process, the process of growth. It seems to me in my own life - and other minds throughout history have also observed this phenomenon - that growth seems to move in two directions at the same time.

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.

Orlando gave me a lot since I came here, and it gave me a chance to become who I am as a player since I came here from Philly.

Having a phobia has changed me.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

I always had a sense of where I was going with 'Dark Phoenix.' Jean had the greatest power imaginable... and, how's she going to deal with that?

My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths.

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

I used to walk miles to make a single phone call. Look how things have changed today.

When I first cut my hair short, I was trying for a mix of Mia Farrow and Jean Seberg. The photo I took to my hairdresser was Jean Seberg in Breathless. I said, 'Make me look like this.'

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

I found my first picture of Amanda Lepore online in fashion magazines. It was the most beautiful thing that I had ever seen in my life. I thought nothing could trump the perfection of that photograph.

That experience of being at Mt. St. Helen's was really formative. I don't even know if I'd be a photographer. It was an essential moment for me.

I had an experience that was kind of backward. Instead of thinking that photography was a step down, it brought me a step up, to transpose and modify things.

Photography has literally changed my life.

I have so much hair, so straightening takes a long time. I mean, if I look at photos of myself with straight hair, it's hilarious. I look like a different person.