Quotes About Versatility

Everyone knows where I play, as a defensive midfielder, more or less the same, so in the last six or seven years I play in that position and there is nothing new for me.

I get noticed for different things I've done in different areas of town. If I'm in a rock club, it'll be Skid Row, if I'm in a mall it's the 'Gilmore Girls.'

I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.

It's a misconception that an intelligent person can't act and I want people to discard such notions.

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world.

I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.

I am who I am. I can't do anything that doesn't have nuances of all the music I've done in the past.

If I can be number one in the world without power hitting, then I don't need power hitting. But when I need to, I utilise it well.

When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.

If I write a book, it has to be so awesome. It has to be next level, to prove mysel. Just like if you are an athlete and you want to rap, you better bring the bars. Don't come in with nursery rhymes.

First and foremost my obligation is on the defensive side. But obviously there are times when I need to go and attack, too.

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

If you've worked in a factory, and you haven't learned how to do something else, you're obsolete. That's just nature.

It's important to match your style with the occasion.

I can do a really good animal impression! I'm great at ducks, cats, dogs, and occasionally dolphins.

I want to do everything. I can never decide on one occupation!

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.

A man who might have been symmetrical, well-rounded, had he availed himself of every opportunity of touching life along all sides, remains a pygmy in everything except his own little specialty, because he did not cultivate his social side. It

it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.

To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail.

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