Dylan McDermott Quotes

You have to constantly change and evolve because people get bored. Look at The Undertaker: he's evolved so many times.

It only seems jarring when you look back on the work I've done. I think if you had to map that out at the beginning and you said, "Right, sit down, this is what you're going to be doing," you'd probably freak out. But I'm someone who really enjoys not being himself. So if you consider that, then it all sort of makes sense. And I just think that's the job of an actor. I guess that's the variation that you're talking about. It's probably a byproduct of just constantly looking for something different, because that's what I feel like I'm supposed to do.

Work changes over time, as you change and the world changes.

Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.

I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Peter Sellers constantly reinvented himself.

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

I can reinvent myself. This is why I've stayed such a long time in the business: because I always change; I'm never the same person.

When it comes to the moves themselves, after I created a style, a lot of guys started doing the same moves I was. I had to switch up my whole offense. Then, when it happened again, I had to switch it up again. It was a hard thing to do, but it helps me grow and helps me not become stale.

As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Times change and you have to adapt.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.