Quotes About Versatility

I'm just me. I'm that cool girl who - as I like to say, I have that Carson Daly effect, where, if you watched 'TRL,' he was able to do interviews with NSYNC, blend right in, and then he would do interviews with Cash Money and blend in there, and you just naturally liked him.

If you can introduce 'Newsround' with a fluffy Gopher squeaking next to you, you can handle anything!

For me, it's important that as you're introducing yourself, you show different dimensions.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

I want to be involved in lots of different things. I want to write and direct, and I make music.

I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions go, it's up there with electricity and cars.

The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything.

If you look at my iPod, I've got so much different music. I think that it kind of describes me as a person, just being a chameleon to whatever particular environment that I'm in.

When I came to the high-performance arena, I was kind of a one-off in a lot of ways. I was as much an iron man as much as I was a cricketer. Having surfed, fished, hunted, that was just a natural thing.

I believe in always having a lot of irons in the fire.

An actor has to act irrespective of the camera or location.

I wanted to do action, and it was a bit irritating when people called me a chocolate boy. I can do other films, too.

People who don't understand will try to label me as one or the other. I'm an athlete and a lot of people just have to come to terms with that. I do well in football, I do well in track. It is what it is.

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American Gangster,' I'm playing an Italian. I've always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.

I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.

What's nice is between 'Wolverine and the X-Men' and 'Thor,' I get to write two very different kinds of stories. Both of them really seem to scratch some itches for me.

I am itching to play every character.

I want to prove to my fans that I am beyond candy floss roles and item numbers.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

I know I'm in a 'jack of all, master of none' situation, but I like it that way.

Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.