Quotes About Adapting

First you find out what you have , Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.

A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed.

I have a lot of traditional values I follow personally, which was hard to deal with when I first moved to L.A.

As human beings, it is natural for us to pick up signals about what is valued in our environment and to want to embody those values. But being superior and infallible isn't something to strive for. Those values do not encourage people to do what is good for their organization in the long run.

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.

One minute, you're dropping your teenage son off to a festival, and the next, you're changing a nappy, but I love the versatility and challenge of being a father.

Going with the flow is soothing but risky.

People expect a story to always mean the same thing, but I have found that stories change like people do.

A transformation, especially one that is deliberately sought, is often perceived as something disloyal, threatening.

For me, juggling mommyhood and work is a challenge, but each day I learn little tricks to make it all come together.

The fundamentals of what I'll do to prepare for a role don't really change. They evolve as you work with more actors and you pick up more tricks.

First you find out what you have, Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.

Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

In order to continue to do interesting work, you need to be...proceeding.

You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.

If you don't leave your job, your job will leave you someday

At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy.

One needs to constantly read up, practice and work, irrespective of your profession. If I feel as an actor that I know everything, then how will I to grow? How will I improve? I'll be stuck in a rut, and eventually I'll grow complacent.

Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?

I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.