Merrie Spaeth Quotes

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

I think the key to the longevity is being able to reinvent yourself and to adopt and incorporate different things into your character.

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

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

My nature just changes.

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

Each project, I can almost feel like I'm like a different person.

Always try to reinvent myself; never try to stay the same person, because that's how people figure you out.

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years... Every five to 10 years.

I wouldn't be myself if I weren't always trying to be someone else. I only have so much time on this earth and I want to be as many people as possible.

It only seems jarring when you look back on the work I've done. I think if you had to map that out at the beginning and you said, "Right, sit down, this is what you're going to be doing," you'd probably freak out. But I'm someone who really enjoys not being himself. So if you consider that, then it all sort of makes sense. And I just think that's the job of an actor. I guess that's the variation that you're talking about. It's probably a byproduct of just constantly looking for something different, because that's what I feel like I'm supposed to do.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.

If there's one thing you can say about my apartment it's that it's constantly evolving, constantly changing. I think that is the mark of a good apartment; you can never really be done - It's like a proper wardrobe.

To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.

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

Our only security is our ability to change.