Be the person you wish to become - today. Talk like them, walk like them, breathe like them! Be them NOW!
I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.
I became a chameleon. My color didn't change. But I could change your perception of my color.
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
I'm a different guy on stage.
You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.
I am no longer a Virginian. I am an American.
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.
I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.
I'm not the Towie girl I once was, I'm not that girl anymore.
I found the one, he changed my life, but was it me that changed?
I'm a bit like a chameleon with my accent.
At Kobe, whither I fled from Hong Kong, I took a step of great importance. I cut off my cue, which had been growing all my life.
I used to have only one name; it used to mean something.
It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.
I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
You can't find that moment when you became somebody else, because everything is in flux. So as it were, the torturous period where you are changing, you are transforming - I think that can be very hard on somebody's system. You don't necessarily realize that is what's happening.
However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment.
I consider myself almost a Californian at this point, because I've been here long enough. Obviously, when I first came to the land of blond-haired, blue-eyed surfer types, I was the sardonic, sarcastic, liquor-swilling, chain-smoking, dark-haired, dark-eyed guy from New York.
When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.
Refuse to let an old person move into your body.
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.
I was, at one point of time, known as the mast-mast girl, and though I must admit it's something I had no qualms with, I've moved on now.
