Quotes About Versatility

I haven't ever been stereotyped or pigeonholed or put into a box.

I don't like to be pigeonholed; I don't like when people won't see me for something because they don't think I can do it. I always feel like, at least give me the shot.

A lot of people get pigeonholed because it makes it easier to understand them - or assume you understand them. I think the way you break away from that is by constantly doing different jobs.

I don't want to get pigeonholed.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

The cool thing about being different in this industry is that you get different roles; you aren't pigeonholed the same way.

It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.

I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?

Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles.

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

I don't want to be pigeonholed into the guy who's against everything.

I'm lucky because I have never been pigeonholed and the roles have kept on coming.

I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.

I don't really think about being pigeonholed so much.

It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.

I think when I got into broadcasting I told myself, 'I don't ever want to be pigeonholed as one thing.'

Because I feel like I can do so many different things, and people like my music for different reasons, I don't feel pigeonholed. I think people are always going to appreciate whatever direction I take.

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

I love people who have really long locs. I love how they can go in different directions or pile it up into a big crown on the head.

After 'Entourage,' it completely opened up my casting within the industry. People saw me for a lot of roles that I hadn't been seen for before. Older roles. I went out this pilot season for a lot of lawyers and doctors. And cops - which I haven't quite mastered yet; I find that quite difficult.

I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.

It's hard to pin me down because I'm a bit of Bernie Sanders, a bit of Rand Paul, bit of John Kasich.

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

I work hard not to be pigeonholed. And I can't understand how you can work on jobs back-to-back all year, with cameras in your face, contestants to look after and someone screaming in your ear, and still expect to remember the price of a pint of milk.