Jennifer Ehle Quotes

There has been a lot of movement in my family, but in a way, it has been great. It has made me adaptable. I can plonk myself anywhere.

I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.

Relative to most people I know, I am comfortable just about anywhere. I went to 20 schools before the 8th grade because my father couldn't hold a job. We moved every six months. I had to adjust.

Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.

We moved a lot. I went to nine schools in four states before I was 14. It gave me tough skin, exposed me to lots of different kinds of people and made me somewhat adaptable.

I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

I have a very broad range of life experiences.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.

Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere. When I was still very young, my father told me: 'Look, we will always have to move, again and again.' I thought that was marvelous! That's how I got used to thinking that life meant starting from scratch, over and over again.

I believe I can adapt to anything.

I've learned never to say never.

I grew up everywhere because my dad was in the Navy. I had to adapt to each environment.

I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.

I am lucky because I can feel at home anywhere, I don't get homesick.

Often the most unexpected, unpredictable moments in life are the ones that leave the biggest impression and that teach us to roll with the punches.

I know that some of the ideas that I have are not always going to be seen as a good idea by everybody but, that's just life. We learn at some point that you don't always get your way.

Constantly getting knocked down and picking myself back up, the relationships I've been able to form with all the different people in the different cities, I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I'm in.

My life was always one year here, I squeezed out what I could from it, enjoyed it the most possible and changed. That was the way of life I had.

We moved from place to place, and it was hard to adjust to different schools. But we made it.

The key thing is knowing how to adapt. Adapting to the group that you have at your disposal; adapting to the place where you're working; adapting to the local environment. This is crucial: adaptability.