Debra Granik Quotes

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

You should have the opportunity to be more than one person with different people because you have that within you. It's not like you're faking it. If everyone knows you so well and can always get a hold of you, then you're stuck to this thing that people think you are. You should have the opportunity to reinvent yourself. Because you do. Naturally.

I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

I don't change. The things around me change.

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.

I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.

I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

People vary. You change your style, your hair, and the way you dress. Talking differently will be a part of that.

I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.

You don't have to look like a warrior in every role.

Anybody can be anybody.

Obviously, everyone needs to find a system and playing style that suits you more.

I'm always changing my style.

We all deal with change differently.

A guy like me, it's probably pretty hard for somebody to pinpoint what position to have me do, where to put me all the time.

I'd like to be known as something more than a girl who goes to lunch with her girl friends and goes shopping.