Ben Vereen Quotes

I'm just constantly figuring out new ways to reinvent myself.

You need to reinvent yourself every day when you are doing creative work. I always say that the moment I feel I'm at the top of the mountain and I cannot do more, I would be finished. So that's why I always feel the earth quake beneath my feet. I always feel myself on the fire. Because I think this is something that gives you the right adrenaline to work and go forward in your professional life. I have reinvented myself, believe me, many times in my life!

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

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

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

I'm a guy who just loves to reinvent myself.

Sometimes you have to re-invent yourself in this business in order to be accepted in different roles.

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.

I think that the power of reinvention is very important.

I'm always reinventing myself.

The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years... Every five to 10 years.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

There's nothing more addictive or incredible in life than reinventing yourself and allow yourself to be different every day.

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.

I am forever learning and changing.

I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there's more to life than track.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.