Quotes About Transformation

With beauty, I think one never finishes it. I'm always exploring. I like the concept of change.

A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.

At first, one believes in love. Then one crosses a border, a border of time. Then that belief, too, is lost.

I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to L.A., I had made a choice to be a character actor, meaning that I wanted to become somebody else. That's what attracted me to becoming an actor in the first place.

At some point in your career, maybe you, too, have made the life-altering decision to start anew. If so, you know first-hand how exciting, challenging, and sometimes disorienting the first 30, 60, 90 days can be.

I've seen firsthand how books can change people's lives. It happened to me.

Fitness really changed my life.

Being able to take control of my life again, take control of what I'm eating and my fitness is enlightening and empowering.

Sometimes I feel like you have to be a different person - you kind of morph into that person that fits in.

We didn't feel we fitted into the '80s.

People work out so hard for even 10 years and still aren't able to achieve the body they wish for. But luckily, my body type helped me lose weight really fast, and I became fitter.

I think finding a character starts in hair and makeup, fitting room. That's where it all kind of falls into place.

It's difficult to fix a truly broken business, but when it happens, the returns can be extraordinary.

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.

When I moved to L.A., I had somebody go, 'Alright. Fix your hair. Wear this.' Like, changed my look a little bit. I kind of came into myself a little better when I moved to L.A.

It's important for me to get close to Sarah Huckabee Sanders and actually fix her makeup.

In the Fifties, there were certain places we couldn't ride on the bus, and now there is a possibility of a black man being in the White House. You have to feel good about it.

If white people on a larger scale really de-emphasized their whiteness, I think that would have to transform the Republican party into a more responsible party that couldn't get by on just playing into white resentment, especially white middle and working class resentment while taking care of the interests of plutocrats.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.