Quotes About Versatility

I'm starting to play lots more naturalistic, realistic people than when I first started. Maybe because I was doing character comedy shows, and I was doing slightly weird, oddball characters with weird accents, those were the characters that I got cast to play - which made perfect sense.

You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.

Be it television or film, or theatre, I can modify myself, develop any character and slip into any role.

I know I can go outside and have better numbers than I put up in the slot.

Something I really pride myself on is not just being a running back that can catch the ball but if I move out to the slot, I become a receiver.

I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

As an actor, I belong to a strange slot, where you may have all sorts of roles in your kitty.

For me, a show's a show. I try to put on the best show I can for whatever audience or time slot I get.

I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply.

I'm a guy that is willing to do whatever it is for the team, whether it is a kick returner, whether it be a punt returner, whether it be running down on kickoffs, whether it's line up in the slot, whether it's run a dummy play, fake play.

I am equally capable of doing club songs, slow rock songs and any other kind as well.

As an actor, you want convince the audience that you can do different things. So, if I have to run in slow motion, I am more than happy to romance.

I'm a mismatch at the four, so a lot of times, I have slower guys on me, and I can exploit that.

DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.

A lot of people just ask me about how I can do small budgets and big budgets, but many actors do both. I think the more self-destructive impulse I have is doing so many different characters.

When you age, you can do all kinds of roles. You don't have to look great. You can be the mom, the aunt. You can have a small part. You're an actor.

I'm not the fastest player, but you can't really play up on me because my handles are good enough where I can get around you. But you can't play off of me, because I can shoot. And if smaller guys try to defend me, I'll back them down. I'm a good post player.

I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a big distinction between them.

I always treat shows as though they could belong on either platform. I always design it for the bigger stage, but I love it on the smaller stage.

I can just be one of those guys that used in the mix, playing 4 or 5 if we play smaller.

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.

I want to be doing smart, fun, complex characters like most actors want to do.

Some days, I feel like being known as a smart players, sometimes clutch.