Quotes About Transformation

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Forgiveness has an uncanny way of bringing incredible good out of incredibly bad situations.

Chaos is my natural habitat. I write about chaotic situations and about people finding their way through the chaos, the hope that you can find your way.

Evolution is a constant state. You evolve and become comfortable in situations in which you might have felt alien in the past.

I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

I was a massive fan of Amy Winehouse growing up. I decided it would be a good idea to become Amy Winehouse with the beehive and ballet shoes. Six months into that, I looked into the mirror and decided I'd better be Mia.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

When I first started playing, I plunked away just like everyone else. During the Sixties I played in a blues band for a few years, and I liked it. It wasn't until I was playing for a while that I made the decision to change my style from a percussive to more of a legato approach. I just wanted a different sound.

If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.

Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.

I wear adult sizes but chop off the arms and legs.

First I wanted to be an ice skater, and then I saw 'Bye, Bye Birdie,' and everything changed. I'm glad I learned through the process of theater.

Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.

One has to shed one's old skin for a positive change.

I wasn't born with vitiligo. It developed when I was 4 years old. My skin changed dramatically over the next few years.

Home is where I shed my skin.

I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.

I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home.

I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.