Quotes About Adapting

I typically try not to think too hard about what I'm going to do in a certain scene with a certain actor in a certain moment because I think that kind of lends its way to not being as improvisational and sort of carefree as one would hope.

I think cash will be around for a long time.

As a member of a generation who have been subjected to much over-stimulation, it's hard to say I fit into any one category.

I've always navigated my way around the comedy writing rooms because I didn't want to cater to this side and that side; I just wanted to be liked by everybody.

That's the job of an actor. You get to be in all these strange new challenging situations.

Once you do a show like 'Modern Family,' which has been an amazing thing, and I'm so happy about it, it does make it a little challenging to do other things.

I'm still not good at changing nappies, but I do do it.

Sometimes when people start dating a hot piece, they take on some of their boo's characteristics unintentionally.

I thought I would hate New York, but I love New York. I almost hate to say that being from Chicago.

I tend to let the chips fall where they may. I don't know if that's right or wrong.

As an actor you make choices that are either right or wrong, and you find the ones that are right for you. As an understudy, the choices have been made, so you have to make those choices right. Going into the role, you can't really question it.

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.

Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.

I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.

Being a host is a completely new role for me and I am surely enjoying it.

Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.

I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.

Sometimes, you don't know what's going to happen to your character until the night before you shoot the scene. So, sometimes, you get a great big surprise at the very last minute, which is scary sometimes. You don't have a whole lot of time to prepare.

I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.

When you become a parent, you have all these ideas about how you're going to treat your kids as they get older. But as you get to those points it always changes. I actually like the surprises.

Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several lives and I still lead some of them.

I have played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable.

La vida verdadera se vive cuando ocurren cambios diminutos». LEÓN TOLSTOI

In acceptance, the new reality is still not OK. It is still not as we want it to be. But we begin to take on the new reality, listen to our needs, open up to new experiences and make connections.