Quotes About Versatility

I'm the type of guy, I make a lot of different beats, but sometimes I might stick to a sound for a little while.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.

Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so I ended up being pretty average at everything.

I'm an actor who believes in looking different in every film of mine.

People nowadays seemed to resent the railroads for abandoning romantic steam power in favor of diesel. People didn't understand the first goddamned thing about running a railroad. A diesel locomotive was versatile, efficient, and low-maintenance. People thought the railroad owed them romantic favors, and then they belly ached if a train was slow. That was the way most people were—stupid.

It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.

I'm attracted to roles that people don't necessarily see me in.

I'm passionate about actors, and I'm passionate about showing actors in different lights.

I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, I do small parts, I do cameos - but I've allowed myself a pat on the back, because I realized that I've been working in Hollywood now since 1973.

I see myself getting into brand partnerships, acting, modeling, and just branching off. I feel like music is my way in the door. And then from there, it's up. I'm going to have so many different things going on. I definitely idolize Rihanna's career path.

I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.

One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

You have to be flexible according to patterns and needs of director.

Whatever Paul Giamatti plays, Paul Heyman could also read for it.

I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.

I love how easy pearls are to wear with anything and everything.

I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.

I don't generally like things that are too pedestrian. But at the same time, and if I'm in the right mood, hey - I ain't gonna lie - I listen to Joni Mitchell. I listen to 'Blue,' I listen to Miles Davis.

It's always good to have more than one player who can take free-kicks or penalties.

If you give me an eyeliner, I can create 40 looks with that - whether it's liquid or pencil.