Quotes About Evolution

Once you want something, everything changes.

When you're listening to my album, I want you to know that things happen and eventually you get over it

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

When you start a script you aim to hit a note you know you want to end in general.

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.

For me, my films have already aged. When they're finished, I don't want to watch them. Of course, I feel protective, but I try not to attach myself to these stories.

I'm not trying to run away from my fans at all. I want them to grow with me.

People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.

As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?" You get to a point that is that so you move on.

Don't get ahead of yourself. Companies need time to figure out what they want to be.

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward." And that's a difficult part.

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.

Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.

I think as any artist you always want to grow; you always want to get better.

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.

Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.