Diane Paulus Quotes

Sometimes I'm really funny, sometimes I'm quiet, sometimes I'm shy, but I'm constantly changing.

There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour. I think it's a good lesson that we should never believe too much in any one thing - because the next day it's out, and if we're stuck to it, we're out, too.

That's what my game is built around: versatility.

I don't believe in closed scripts; I think that they should be open.

Don't get married to the idea of something having to be one way.

It doesn't need to be the same every day, doesn't need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I've always been very flexible. I don't care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.

It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.

What I love about my work is the variety and not knowing what's coming next, and being able to embrace something for a period of time and know something new is going to follow.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.

I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.

I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

If you follow anything that I've ever done, I never stick to one thing more than one year. I'm just afraid to get typecast.

Adaptability is crucial to working on Glee because every day is adapting to something. Because we're doing a different genre of music, doing a different type of scene with a different scene partner, recording and dance rehearsals... no day is like another.

There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

I've always been able to look very different very easily.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

I love to work in all sorts of different situations.

It's the transformation that drives me. I want to do it all and never want to be boxed into something as a particular type or style. I never want people to think they know me. I hope to build a repertoire that one can look at and say, from to role to role, 'Was that Brian Tee?'

My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.

My nature just changes.