Quotes About Variety

There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

You give the reader a sense of a full meal.

I don't need every book to have female creators, I don't care if there are books that appeal mostly to guy readers. I don't care if some books have cheesecake. I am fine with all of that. It's the not allowing anything else that makes me furious.

Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.

I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

Every day is different in real estate, which is why I love it.

For me, I love doing different things with real estate.

Edam and Gouda are genuine Dutch cheeses, but the real thing is a lot less bland than the varieties most of us experience in the U.K.

You realise that people do things differently to each other and, more and more, I realise that there's no right or wrong. You can be a pop star and singing cabaret, and the entertainment of it is your flamboyance, it is your attitude.

I realise that I'm a bit of a dabbler but it's nice to do stuff that's different.

One thing I realised was that everyone is different. You can't compare two human beings.

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.

I can do R&B, pop, gospel... whatever genre of music that's out.

I listen to everything. My playlists are wide-ranging. I listen to classic rock, gospel, Christian, soul.

Not everybody's life is like 'Gossip Girl.'

You can't have 12 records on your album and none of them sound alike. You gotta kind of have something to make them say, 'That sounds like Rakim.'

I've just gotten to do a lot of very different things, and as an actor, that's what you want.

As an actor, you want to do different things. You don't want to do same kind of stuff. I like the characters I play to have a graph.

I have a brother who's a schoolteacher, a sister who's a graphic artist, a brother who is a lawyer. I have a brother who's a carpenter.

I don't want to bore people or myself - to be busy is something to be grateful for, but to be busy doing diverse work is absolutely... I wouldn't change it for the world. I feel very lucky for that.

We live in a gray world, and I want to tell gray stories.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.