Quotes About Versatility

I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.

To me, a hockey player has to be every sport rolled into one: ice skater, baseball player, football player, etc. It's just incredible to watch!

When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'

Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches of helicopters at a time when they weren't even invented!

I have learnt sketching, drawing, singing, dancing, rifle shooting, paragliding.

The best indication is that I still love to ski on most anything, from skating gear to heavy metal.

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.

Even in comedy, I'm always the straight guy, which is okay because that's a skill. But it would be nice to get out of that box.

I've had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that - from being a nurse, a farmer, dealing with real estate - has added to a skill set that I would have been able to use throughout my political career.

It's not requirement to have a point guard, you can have skill players with 3 or 4 guys on the same team playing multiple positions.

I think there's a real premium on skill at all positions on the court. I think that's going to continue.

The life of an actor is not filled with limousines and talk-show interviews. I've moved crates of beer; I've been a bartender, personal assistant, butler. But all those skills have helped me in the business aspect of what I do.

I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

As an artist, I do not want to limit my skills to one medium alone.

One thing for me that modeling definitely did was that you go to do a different job every day, and you are working with a completely new team of people. You have to learn how to talk to people and how to creatively achieve the same goals. I think it just hones your people skills.

What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.

When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.

The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything.

I feel fairly certain that my painting skills might not be best shown on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I'll have to come up with another way to showcase that side of me.

I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what you should do and shouldn't do. This is what's exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we're actually acting them out in front of cameras.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.