Quotes About Transformation

I could have continued to get into trouble, but I wanted to do something positive with myself - and music is the best way.

I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.

Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.

Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.

People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important to change people's impressions.

Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.

True change takes place in the imagination.

Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

'True Detective' did change my career.

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

'True Lies' reinvented me in the eyes of a new generation and got me offers.

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

Our outward appearance is a reflection of what we are on the inside. Our lives reflect that for which we seek. And if with all our hearts we truly seek to know the Savior and to be more like Him, we shall be, for He is our divine, eternal Brother.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.

It truly amazes me all the things you can add and mix in to truly transform a plain old bowl of oatmeal.

It is when you adapt that you truly grow. When you grow, you don't let your art become the breeding ground for inadequacies.

I truly look in the mirror and love who I am today because of the pain that I had to go through to get here.

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

Trump has got to, I think, move to a new level. This is no longer the primaries. He's no longer an interesting contender. He is now the potential leader of the United States and he's got to move his game up to the level of being a potential leader.

It's time to make America safe again. It's time to make America one again. I know it can be done because I did it by changing New York City from 'the crime capital of America' to - according to the FBI - the safest large city in America. What I did for New York City, Donald Trump will do for America.

I was about 14 when I became a Christian. I had been going to youth group, and I'd heard the Gospel preached, and then suddenly it all started to click. God opened my eyes to see Jesus for who He really was. After I trusted Christ, the Lord changed my entire perspective on everything.

The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me.