Quotes About Versatility

I don't always want to play the wacky, crazy parts. I love having the opportunity to play a regular person in an irregular situation in a very realistic way.

I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical.

I love to do films of all shapes and sizes and feelings and genres. So for me to go from Tomb Raider straight into Dear Frankie, there's nothing that excites me more than to keep mixing it up.

I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well.

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

I love basketball, but playing basketball doesn't fully define who I am. I was always a good student, too.

I do well to interpret scripts to the best of my ability so even if I'm given a monster to play a love scene with, I will.

We all have different sides of our personalities, so I'd love to play some more different parts too.

Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!

I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

Johnny Depp is somebody I really love working with because he doesn't care how he looks. He wants to become weird characters and I like that.

Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.

When you don't know what to do, you must be prepared to do anything and everything, in case it becomes necessary. You're sitting in your car with the gas and brake pedals both punched to the mat. Too much of that and everything falls apart.

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

Like the classic it has become, the Farewell Address has demonstrated the capacity to assume different shapes in different eras, to change color, if you will, in varying shades of light.

He is capable of any crime, from reviling the Classics to diverting water courses.

It is not balance you need but adaptability.

If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.

If all you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.

Don't try to pound them into your framework like square pegs into round holes.

D}o not ask me to choose classical philology over industrial catering when they both seem such powerful fun; I want to be a forensic epidemiologist and a floorwalker in men's hosiery-look at how those size l0-to-13's drape over their tiny 2-shaped hangers...

Like, why is Batman so relevant? It's because he gets reinvented constantly. There are a lot of stories you can tell with that character.

I've spent my whole career trying to stay out of any box that anyone could put me in. 'I'm going to do a play now.' 'Now I'll do a musical.' That was my instinct. So I don't feel boxed in. But 'African-American woman' is part of my identity. I don't want to relinquish that - especially as a mother, helping my daughter find her identity.