Quotes About Versatility

I think Eddie Murphy is the greatest comedian. I do think that Richard Pryor is the Godfather, but Eddie Murphy, in my opinion, has every comedic category in his arsenal. He can roast you. He can freestyle. He can host. He was LeBron James before we even saw LeBron James.

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.

I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often.

I want to exercise all my muscles. I want to do plays. I want to do everything.

If you do a character that resonates enough, people are always going to see you as that character. It will just be up to me to make choices where I can flex other muscles.

Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic.

As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I could do pretty much anything but a musical.

I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.

Once I write something, I never try to write that same style again, because I get very schizophrenic musically.

I'm a chameleon. When you put me in certain soils, musically speaking, I will be in that place.

Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand?

I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.

If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

I just want to grow as a musician. that's why I do different languages.

I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a certain level of musicianship, which helps.

I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.

I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz.

I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.

I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.

I want musicians to be looked at as people that are not just doing one thing.

I don't want people to think that just because I do club records, I can't do an album record or an R&B single. I can do R&B, I do pop, I do whatever - but it's still Mustard.

I have a fairly limited drawing style. I'm not like my friend Derek Kirk Kim, who can pretty much change his style at will. My drawing style can handle some of my stories, but not all of them.

I don't have any high aims or goals, but I hope to continue my journey of multi-tasking as I have been doing so far as an actor, dancer, and also serving people of the nation.