Quotes About Transformation

'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

I swear to God, my career is like this weird origami thing.

I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

Parenthood is a psychic sweat lodge: enter into it only if you are ready to have your own secreted toxins running into your eyes. Few people are prepared for its power - women or men.

When I went to Sweden, I sort of found out who I was.

I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization.

For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.

I was a really bad kid. Then, I got sweet as I got older.

I started out doing things like 'Flash Forward,' where I was the girl-next-door, and then, I did a show called 'Higher Ground,' where I played this really mean, sarcastic girl. Then 'Firefly' happened, and everybody thought of me as this bubbly, sweet girl-next-door again.

It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when '91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet.

I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.

You know, I think that nature has such a powerful message about moving from dark to light, and bitterness to sweetness.

Learning how to swim is the biggest achievement for me, as it helped me get rid of hydrophobia. Now I have become a complete water baby.

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

While swimming was always a spotlight sport, I was, if you will, sort of present at the creation when gymnastics became the new star lead-off hitter.

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

In the early Seventies, I bought a dilapidated hotel in north Stoke for about £100,000 and spent the same amount again renovating it, putting in a guitar-shaped swimming pool, painting the bathrooms purple, and installing gold dolphin taps.

I'm able to switch gears at any moment.

It will create lots and lots of jobs once we switch over to a pony based economy.

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

At some point, and maybe it's a function of age, you've had enough of it. You start to slide in other directions. A lot of comedy writers begin to turn the dial. With me, it was a switch. Comedy off. Drama on.

I won't say there's a good Richard and a bad Richard, but I've got a switch, and when it clicks on, I'm somebody else.

I guess I feel like somebody flipped a switch, and the whole world is in Technicolor now.