Quotes About Flexibility

Being a smaller, nimbler company is better for our customers, employees and shareholders.

I can just be one of those guys that used in the mix, playing 4 or 5 if we play smaller.

I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.

I am prone to reshape and refashion things to try and please as many people as I can, to get as many nods or smiles out of as many people as possible.

The greatest moment of all was her on set, and she said, 'Would you mind if you change the order of the phrase?' Maggie Smith asking me if I could change the line, asking politely, using my name!

Things don't always go smoothly.

I played 51 percent of the snaps outside, though. But you can go ahead and call me a slot as well.

When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.

I can apply myself to the format of 'SNL,' I can apply myself to the format of 'Conan,' but at the same time, I'm still being J. B. Smoove. I'm not changing up my style, I'm not changing up how I think, what's funny to me, my delivery, the way I carry myself.

Before you get to 'SNL,' you have your own sensibility. And when you get to 'SNL,' it's the show's sensibility.

I'm not totally sure what I want to be doing, but it's so fun to be on 'SNL' because you get exposed to so many different people and so many different experiences. It's a cool, lucky way to break into the business.

I'm not a snob. I can make a meal out of anything. I can eat anywhere.

It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

I'm not a snob... there's room for entertainment that reaches a lot of people and can be really good, but you don't just have to be one kind of actor.

Cement doesn't give as much as snow.

I did a seminar once in Pennsylvania when there was big snow, road construction, a big flood and just one person showed up. I said, 'No problem, I'll do it.' If there's one or 100 on the mat, the juice is still there.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

I spent so many years shuffled around. I'm used to it and can deal with it.

I'm having so much fun, I'm just going to go where it takes me.

As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.

you prepare for a pitch, meeting, speech, or negotiation, the goal is to know your material so well that you are free to be in the moment.

Tough. Deal with it. Adapt and overcome.

And he knew that if you could not adapt and overcome, then you were totally hosed. Because conditions were always going to change on you. These days, probably for the worse.

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.