Sam Elliott Quotes

The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.

When I finish a film, I like to drastically change my appearance. I get sick of looking at the same thing in the mirror for months at a time. So when a film's over, I'll do something like shave my head.

The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.

I'm a shape shifter.

I have no fear of changing looks.

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

I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

Peter Sellers constantly reinvented himself.

I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change.

My nature just changes.

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

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

I have always believed in reinventing myself and taking risks.

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

The very first time I buzzed my head, I was 21 - I'd had short hair since I was 14 - I just remember it was, like, 2 in the morning, and I just was like, 'I really want to do it. I want to see what I look like and what my head shape is.'

I am not stagnating in one kind of an image.

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 have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of life is as natural to me as staying in one place is for other people. I do variations on the theme. I return to places where I used to be. I find my old personas. I try them on. If they still fit, I wear them out to a party or a show. If they begin to restrict my movements, I take them off. I am a human being, capable of mimicking anything I see or remember or can imagine.

If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

People change, but only if you give them room to do it.

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.