Quotes About Flexibility

I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

I was raised in an environment where chaos was the norm, so I was at my best in chaos.

I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

I normally go with the flow.

Normally, when I write the setlist for a Dream Theater show, I'll change it up every night, and we can basically play whatever we want.

I wouldn't want to play as left forward if I normally play right-back.

Being 'Strictlyfied' is the opposite to who I am normally, but on this show, you definitely have to go with the flow.

I don't like to look too far ahead normally, I see it season-by-season or game-by-game.

When things that normally work aren't working, you have to go to something else.

Normally if you are in a boat, you can follow a fish around, but if you are on the shore, you have to pull it.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

I think it's okay not knowing what you want to become.

I think I've learned, really, just how to let go - if an idea doesn't work, or it's not perfect, that's O.K.

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

I played there a couple of times in Leverkusen, playing as the striker was nothing new for me I knew what to do - it was fully okay.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.

It doesn't matter that I'm taking a fight on a month's notice. I've taken many fights on two seconds' notice.

Fight fans always appreciate a fighter who is willing to step up on short notice.

You've really got to stay ready 24/7. You really can't get ready because there's no telling. They'll call you short notice to fight anyone so you really have to stay ready.

I've taken fights on one-day notice.

I want to be able to take fights on short notice.