Quotes About Transformation

My father being incarcerated for 25 years, 26 years, so I had a rough past, but me moving to Atlanta, I just thought that changed my whole identity - my thinking.

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

If I feel like things are getting into a routine, I want them to be different. I need to keep improving and keep moving forward.

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

I come from a past of addition, so I didn't pay much attention to politics.

I'm a mudboy. I came from the mud, oozed out the concrete. I'm not a rose. I'm a mudboy: I came from nothing.

I was like, 'Prince, prince. Prince Ali. People know that from 'Aladdin.' I'm a big fan of Muhammad Ali. I can't be Muhammad Ali. I'm looking up royal - Mustafa. Mustafa's a royal name. Prince Mustafa, OK fine.' Prince Mustafa Ali came from that, and it's an easier name for people to remember, too: Prince Ali.

I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently.

I think, most definitely, my style has been changing throughout the years, and that's because of the injuries that I've had, the multiple surgeries on my left knee.

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

I always had a short bob with bangs, and I hated it. My mum would always say, 'A short hair cut is always the way to go for you.' I had it for fourteen years!

Actually, my real name is not Mona. It's Jasmeet. I changed it to Mona when I came to Mumbai.

I started in 2014 and I came from Mumbai Indians. That time I never thought that I'll play 100 matches for RCB. So, yeah, it's a very emotional journey.

For 'Beasts,' I really wanted my character to be this sort of mushy, muscleless Muppet.

When I first joined with Murphy, I had to make a character change. I wasn't confident in myself about that at all, but I remember my mom telling me that once something clicks with me... I had to... come in and kick the door down and let everyone know who I am.

There are actors who do various different shades of a similar character, which is fine. But I prefer the Cillian Murphy school of doing something that takes you so far outside yourself that it's an incredible challenge and adventure.

Everything I do through the course of my life, every day I do it with my arms, and it means that by using this muscle so much I have changed gradually the state of my muscle, turning my muscle into red fibers.

It's amazing what a bit of soot and shaving can do for muscle definition, honestly.

I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.

Personally, I think I might end up fighting heavyweight in the future. I can just see myself keep growing. I'll be 24, 25, growing 2, 3, 4 more inches, and putting on a lot of muscle. I can absolutely see it.

As you build muscle, remember that the scale may stay the same, but you won't.