Quotes About Flexibility

When Lars Von Trier calls me, I say yes without reading the script because often the script hasn't been written yet, and if Fincher called me again, I'd say yes without reading the script, too.

The American public will give you an awful lot of slack on how you voted on one issue or another if they feel like you have a reason.

You have to be ready for anything. It's a good reminder about democracy. Voters can tell you to carry on, or chuck you out. You've got to be ready for both.

You can't run a business just by selling one thing.

There are no hard and fast rules. Your sensibilities change as you grow older.

I think I've got one more series in me, and I don't care what it is.

Don't take everything so seriously.

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

Don't take things too seriously.

In my business, you could be making money one day, and the next day you could be serving up burgers at McDonald's. So if you want to be able to stay on top of your game, you've got to keep with it.

I reach on the sets ready to be moulded by the director and give my best shot.

Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.

I'm not setting too many expectations for myself. I'm just trying to create opportunities for something interesting.

It's definitely important for kids to learn in many different settings.

You get used to playing with players and what you like and then you know what happens during games, and it's not easy to just settle in.

As you get older, of course you want to be settled, but life changes and it doesn't work out. Who knows what will happen?

I'm a shape shifter.

It's tough being able to shift your mind during the years and change roles.

Focused attention necessarily has an edge, but as focus changes, the edge shifts.

I don't worry about infield shifts at all - you play where you're gonna play. I'm just gonna pitch my game.

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

The brain adapts very quickly. It is incredible how quickly we can adapt and what progress we can make in a very short time.

I wouldn't call myself a commitment-phobe, but someone who really likes to try everything to the point of wanting to do short-term projects, just to give myself the opportunity to go to more places and try more things.

I was a center fielder, and I played shortstop.