Quotes About Transformation

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I was becoming post-ideological.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

The fact that I went from making a minute-and-a-half video in my bedroom to doing an hour-and-a-half live show is just crazy.

I stopped drinking alcohol, which probably was the biggest change. I used to be a very big beer drinker. Being from England, that's a very common thing.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

Death is the beginning of something.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

When you live with a character in your mind, after a while you start to behave like them, act like them and connect with them. That is how acting happens for me.

It is not easy to behave and be someone else if one does not prepare well for it.

The way I dress definitely helps me embody and actually change my way of behaving and feel more confident.

In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.

I remember being a teenager, I never thought that I'd live in a society that was not segregated. It happened.

I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.

I'm an actor who believes in looking different in every film of mine.

I'm attracted to stories of people who don't belong together, who embark on something and find themselves in places they don't belong.

I always felt once it goes into movie land, the book belongs to someone else.

There can be no resolution leading to growth until the present situation has been faced completely and you have opened to it with mindfulness, allowing the roughness of the situation itself to sand down your own rough edges. In other words, you must be willing to let itself to become your teacher.

The challenge of mindfulness is to work with the very circumstances that you find yourself in - no matter how unpleasant, how discouraging, how limited, how unending and stuck they may appear to be - and to make sure that you have done everything in your power to use their energies to transform yourself before you decide to cut your losses and move on.

To be patient is simply to be completely open to each moment, accepting it in its fullness, knowing that, like the butterfly, things can only unfold in their own time.

Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.

Driving west out of Atlanta, he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience. To symbolize the complete severance from his previous life, he even adopted a new name. No longer would he answer to Chris McCandless; he was now Alexander Such ertramp, master of his own destiny.