#transform

To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort. ↗

— Scott Reed

#action #always #any #automatically #begin

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting. ↗

— Mark Strong

#acting #bit #enjoy #i #idea

I loved Transformers when I was a kid. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#kid #loved #transformers

My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#dramatic #herself #powerhouse #sitcom #transformed

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#between #connections #feared #force #most

Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us. ↗

— Terence Young

#belly #instead #into #laugh #like

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#anything #being #being yourself #get #into

And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur. ↗

— Angela Carter

#the-bloody-chamber #the-tigers-bride #transformation #beauty

Isn’t that the way God works? She’d thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent. ↗

— J.E.B. Spredemann

#god #grace #mercy #transformation #ugliness

..[My friend Marco said]. essentially, humans are alive for the purpose of journey, a kind of three-act structure. They are born and spend several years discovering themselves and the world, then plod through a long middle in which they are compelled to search for a mate and reproduce and also create stability out of natural instability and then they find themselves at an ending tha seems to be designed for reflection. At the end, their bodies are slower, they are not as easily distracted, they do less work, and they think and feel about a life lived rather than look forward to a life getting started. He didn't know what the point of the journey was, but he did believe we were designed to search for and find something. And he wondered out loud if the point wasn't the search but the transformation the search creates. ...[I wondered] that we were designed to live through something rather than to attain something, and the thing we were meant to live through was designed to change us. The point of a story is the character arc, the change. ↗

— Donald Miller

#transformation #change