Quotes About Transformation

Moving out and living on my own was a big thing, but to be in a different country with different coaches and a different mentality changed me as a person, as a player, the way I think about things and the way I see people.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I've always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

The dream would be to work with my two favorite actors, Daniel Day Lewis and Cate Blanchett. Or playing Joaquin Phoenix's brother in a film. Basically anything where I get to act opposite actors like these; ones who bring a certain caliber to their work and literally morph into the character they are playing.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

You don't want a character who sits on an even playing field the whole time.

The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.

I was very pleased to see that things have come far, far away from the Diva Search days where it was, 'Let's have a bunch of girls in bikinis flop around and look stupid so the public can vote them on or off the show.'

My childhood was full of shocks and alarums, and I had to work a long time to make a life that pleases me.

I do know plenty of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have become Christians through the years. In fact, several of my friends were once strong atheists but are now committed followers of Jesus.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good. It was the first time that I existed inside a fully-functioning self - one that I controlled, that I steered, that I gave life to.

I call Pluto the harbinger.

At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is more as if you remade the garden every day.

The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.

You want a poem to unsettle something. There's a deep and interesting kind of troubling that poems do, which is to say, 'This is what you think you're certain of, and I'm going to show you how that's not enough. There's something more that might be even more rewarding if you're willing to let go of what you already know.'

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that.

I never really knew what to do with my hair to begin with. When I was fat, I had incredibly long, unkempt hair. And there was kind of a poetic justice to losing something I was hiding behind.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.