Quotes About Versatility

I can relate to the novelist Carrie Brown...who described herself as being 'a promiscuous reader.' I'll give almost any book a chance to have its way with me.

Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.

The best thing about college was that you could wear anything anywhere.

He was tall and thin, with a shock of grey hair and eyebrows that could stop a supernova in its tracks. His wardrobe ranged from ageing punk rocker to sharp-suited mod, but today veered towards the latter: a crisp white shirt buttoned to the neck beneath a velvet Crombie jacket.

I think that, as well as Strapping Young Lad kind of having the name for themselves based on brutality and aggression, I think there's also something to be said to the fact that every Strapping record is different. They're all different.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

I like the challenge of dressing ladies in lots of different things.

You can't always be a leading lady.

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

I'm not the singing cookbook lady.

I love working in television and film, but it's completely different. The theater will always be my home. So I would love to be a lady who gets to work in all of the mediums and who calls the theater her home.

I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.

Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.

Being someone who plays gigs and finding many, many memorable ones in different ways, I guess I'd have to say I don't really have a single favourite one that I could pick out.

I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.

I have this mentality that I have to be prepared for everything.

I'm mentally agile.

Every form has its merits. And I like to work in a lot of different forms.

My all-time favourite actor is Meryl Streep. She can do anything and everything. She's so good in 'Sophie's Choice.' She changes her accent so well, which is something actors in India don't do although we should, so that we can be more authentic to our craft.

One-pot meals make a lot of sense... because so much of what people hate about cooking is really the cleanup, the mess, the grease.

As a finisher, there are few players as composed as Messi. When you can score as many different kinds of goal as he can, you have every reason to be confident.

Messi is the same player in Barcelona and Argentina, and it would be the same if he played with Australia.

When we first started out, we had no idea what metal music was all about. But now we listen to everything from cute songs to all sorts of metal music.

You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends.