Top 113 Malleable Quotes & Sayings

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable.

You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it's this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.

The form is so malleable and can do so many things.

A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she learns new information or hears a better idea.

We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.

Now that gigabytes of accessible, malleable information can be carried in one's pocket, we probably will start to see some widespread shifts and trends in how and where people interact with digital documents.

I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.

One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.

I have a very healthy dose of scepticism towards what identity is and what personas are, maybe because of my life journey. Identity is something so malleable.

The beauty of stand-up is that it's very flexible, it's very malleable and immediate. Whatever is in your head that day you can verbalise in some way that night. It's the medium that suits me best.

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

Sometimes, as actors, if we work hard enough and stay at it long enough and are malleable and directable, then good things can come of that.

In a malleable world where everything from atoms to cells is changing to match our beliefs, we're limited only by the way we think of ourselves in that world.

In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

You've gotta leave enough space for your actors to bring stuff to the table and whatever the weather's doing that day or what the light's like. Things can shift, and you have to be malleable. Every day is a different feeling and a change.

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.

With years, you change. You're not as hardheaded or stubborn. You are more malleable.

Rock is much more malleable than ideas.

Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.

I am extremely malleable as an actor, but I also know how to get away with doing things the way I want, even if the director disagrees.

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

With TV, you don't know, but you can build it as you go and bring some things to life. It's malleable, changeable and flexible.

For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.

Nature is malleable and nature learns.

What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don't think of as malleable.

Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.

Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political goals.

I love the opportunity to shoot digital because you can shoot so many takes, it's really malleable, it's a ton of fun, and it is easy.

The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.

We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.

The good thing with 'Insidious' and 'The Further' is that it's so nebulous, this supernatural world, that it allows you to bend things. There's a lot of room, it's very malleable, like how in the second film we had a lot of time travel.

I'm very schizophrenic and malleable as a human being.

Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.

We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one.

Makeup is malleable and mercurial: The biggest joy I have every day is the opportunity to create, to play, and to invent with something I've loved forever.

We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are not malleable, we will get left behind.

What we found was that the greater proportion of process praise, the more likely the child was to have a mindset five years later that welcomed challenges and that represented traits as malleable, not a label you were stuck with.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Transformation as a female actor is allowed up to a certain extent - as long as they can still recognize you on a red carpet. For a woman to be a shape-shifter, and to be that malleable in spirit, is really not OK with the patriarchy.

There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.

You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it’s this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

Just take it easy and celebrate the malleable reality. You see, nothing is ever at is seems, yeah this life is but a dream.

I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him.

I often say time is malleable, but the reception of an artwork is malleable too. When the culture changes, the view and the way you see that work, your perspective, changes. It's something that you can't control. It's sort of daunting and intimidating, but at the same time very fascinating, extremely fascinating.

When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.

You really have to bring your game and know what you want to do. And then, there are the producers and the writers and the director on the other side of the glass, and what they want. You have to be malleable to what's going to work, and you have to stay in the framework of the context.

You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.