Quotes About Transformation

I have lost close to 20 kilos, and it has kind of helped prepare my character for 'Sanam Teri Kasam.'

How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?

When I go on stage, I'm a different man. I become Chubby Checker, And when I'm not Chubby Checker, I'm preparing to be him.

When I was in Class XI, I started preparing for medical college, and after that, the Miss India pageant.

In the presence of your own loving attention, you create the inner conditions that are necessary to step into the next greatest evolution of yourself.

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

If you're not changing, you're not growing; you're not being present. Change is essential.

When I look at cities now, I don't see them in the present. This is the decaying infrastructure of our existing cities. Years from now, none of this is going to be here. New cities are going to rise.

I always like to give and present my actors in a different look.

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

With President Obama, we will move America forward.

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

I think that, ultimately, my father-in-law will change the United States for the better, restore pride to our country and go down in history as one of the greatest Presidents.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Lee Seung-gi before the army and Lee Seung-gi after the army are totally different. Firstly, I've matured a lot. I used to feel pressured by a lot of things before fulfilling my military duties. Now, I'm proud that I've become more confident.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

Everything isn't permanent, so don't pretend that it is. Everything's supposed to move and shift.

I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid.

I think of L.A. as my home now, in large part because I became the entity that I am in L.A. I always say to people that my coming-of-age happened in L.A., the unraveling of the person I was pretending to be for a long time, and then finding of the person I feel like I now am.

Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.

It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.