Quotes About Adapting

Nothing is as exciting - or as nerve-wracking - as being the new girl. Whether it's your first day of school or you're starting a dream job, if there's one thing that makes a first impression a lot less daunting, it's a really, really good hair day.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.

I think you always have to be innovating and adapting and improving. You can't stay the same.

I've kept improving in many ways. Boxers evolve with experience.

When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.

I sometimes improvise, and that's what I call 'massaging the character.'

It's fascinating working with young children. You have to improvise around them, and they're moving around and doing stuff, and you have to be real with them.

If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.

I didn't want to come to L.A. without a plan. I was already dealing with my own indecision in Atlanta, so I didn't want to pick up and relocate and do the same thing in a different area.

We have two lives — the one we learn with and the life we live after that.

We have two lives; the life we learn with and the life we live after that.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. The Singer, in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, prologue (1944).

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.

We do not go to school to be a success, we go to school to learn to hopefully be a success one day and if not then our plan in life lies elswhere and that is good ......

Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.

My experience in uniform has shaped my life and informed who I am like no other, and it's difficult for me to wrap my mind around the idea that I will no longer be a soldier.

I was pretty one-dimensional, a wrestler.

Entertainment is changing so much because of the devices we have at our hands. I'm really proud to be on the forefront of that. You don't have to work one place. It's our generation. As much as we get knocks against us, we don't accept non-quality work in our entertainment. We're no longer force-fed. Wrestling is going through that.

When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.