Quotes About Transformation

Mass immigration changes countries beyond recognition. Ordinary people are well aware of that.

By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.

If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

I like roles that people don't recognize me in.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.

You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.

Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out!

We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.

But when I cut off my hair I even had friends not recognize me.

What's exciting about watching a movie, when it's finished, is you sometimes you don't recognize yourself, and that's when I'm really proud.

I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.

In 'House of Boys,' I wanted to be in drag. It was amazing to be in the middle of all these drag queens. They did my makeup. I hardly recognized myself! That was very funny.

For years, I was just Joe Bloggs. There was no excitement until 'Game of Thrones,' and then people started recognizing me.

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

I think it's important to evolve and make a different record every time as an artist.

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.

I didn't really like 'You Raise Me Up' at the time we recorded it; now it's my favourite Westlife song.

Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some other songs.

Right after we recorded 'Satanic Satanist' and 'American Ghetto' here in Boston, we decided we'd grow our hair out. This is - was - like the Beatles thing. I wanted to see these pictures later in life.

One of the songs we recorded for 'The Long Run' was called 'You're Really High, Aren't You?' Which never really made it onto a record, but later on, it became 'Heavy Metal.' I took that track that wasn't used, and when I was invited to write a song for that movie, I took that track and recorded that song for that movie.

When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with; the girls didn't think we were cool, although they did a few years later. We had ducktails and wore peg-leg pants. We looked like rock n' rollers.

For the first 12 years of recording I would finish the album, then on the day it came out I'd never hear the songs again.