Quotes About Flexibility

Women, I believe, learn to think on their feet, to cope with change and survive.

Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.

My home is in whatever town I'm booked.

Facebook is great for women and men. We are enormously flexible. We care a lot about great opportunities for women, we push ourselves to make things as flexible as possible.

Wind either breaks a tree or teaches it to dance.

Soul bonds can't be broken. They only bend for a while . . .

When life places stones in your path, be the water. A persistent drop of water will wear away even the hardest stone.

I've been around long enough now and have learned to be flexible enough to know that every movie isn't going to be 'Apocalypse Now,' and every director doesn't have to be Stanley Kubrick.

I don't want to say, 'This is where Im going to be in five years and Im going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.

I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.

Writing with kids is an adventure. It seems like someone always has the flu or pink-eye. I mean, you don't even have to be in direct contact with anyone to get pink-eye. But for parents who write, flexibility becomes essential, and as long as I have a pad of paper and a pen, I can write anywhere. Starbucks is fine.

Things change. You walk on the street and get a Starbucks, and things have changed by the time you come back to the office.

You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.

Lease terms don't fit start-up lives.

AAP is like a start-up. You do roles you would have never imagined.

I try to drive my office more as a start-up of ideas.

Having a start-up is all about being able to see what works and change your idea.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

Everybody would like to be starter, but if I'm not, it's no big deal for me.

I can put my legs behind my head, but that's pretty much it. An early agent said to me, 'If you can put your legs behind your head, let's say you're a contortionist!' So I got sent out for everything twisty and bendy. It's a good conversation starter.

If the team's winning, I'm going to do whatever I can to help the team, whether that's from third-string role, backup, starter, it doesn't matter. I'm going to do what I can to prepare and help the team.

I will do anything a team asks me to do. If it's to come off the bench, I would impact the game by coming off the bench. If I were to start, I would impact the game as a starter. I would impact the game either way.

My preparation doesn't change from being a backup to a starter.

I've played in a lot of different roles through the course of my career and I've been a starter for a lot of those years and the mentality can never change.