Quotes About Versatility

I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.

I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

I actually played a lot of other sports - table tennis and soccer for a long time.

In football in this country, we want to be able to check off every box of a soccer player. You have to be good at this and this and this. Because of our society, and the way that I grew up in soccer, I had to become well-rounded-but I also cherished the parts of me that made me special.

In high school, I was friends with everybody. I had my core group of friends, but I could flow through different social groups pretty easily.

The ideal intern is committed, creative, organized, ambitious, independent, and able to crack a smile, whether meeting a celebrity or folding socks.

As an actor, the joy lies in being able to play roles that you are not. If I get a chance to play a sofa or alien, I would love it.

I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing soft, sadder beautiful songs.

I played basketball, softball and lacrosse, also did gymnastics and danced for years.

I wanted to show that I could take on roles that were a bit softer and more caring.

At heart, human beings are what we may call 'generalists,' who have the ability to adapt their internal 'software programs' to different habitats or situations.

I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager - and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I've ever done.

Whatever way that we have in our head that we expect people to use a software, they'll find other interesting ways to use it that we didn't expect.

From the late '70s to the early '90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged from articles on how to clean a longhorn cow's skull for living-room decoration to manuals on elementary math instruction on the Apple II... to a slew of software reviews and application articles done for the computer press.

I was a bartender, a hot-dog vendor, a cook, sold magazine subscriptions.

I have a lot of nicknames. They called me Kingo in Japan, they called me the Young Vagabond, but that sounds bad, then Soldier of Fortune, now they call me the Dream Catcher.

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

I don't want to be defined solely by what I do as a jazz musician at a club or a festival. That's not all of me. It's not even close.

I was that kid that did dance, singing, pageants. I did everything pretty much across the board, so it was kind of an adjustment solely doing music.

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

Having done 'Misfits' for three years solid, you become known for doing one thing, so I've wanted to change things up as much as possible with each job.

You make sure you broaden yourself and have a good solid background in many different things. That's what you need to be a good scientist.

Before the Polaroid commercials, my image was that of a solid actress, a theater actress who could do anything. But the Polaroid commercials were high comedy... Through them I was finally noticed as a comedian.