Quotes About Versatility

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

Some people love 'Roots;' some people hate 'Roots.' Some people only like the old stuff. Some people want me to play like I did when I was 15. I can't do that all the time. I try to bring a little bit of that into some stuff that I do, but I can't just be that only. There's much more to life than that.

I am an oldies act - yes, I am - there's that part of me, but I am so much more than that.

I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.

I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do.

One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

I love music. I love filmmaking. I love law enforcement. I love doing a lot of the green work that I do, the charity work that I do, and I don't think that any one person has to be just one thing.

If there's one thing I don't have, it's an insular bone.

A person's life is hopefully more than just one thing.

Why should I have to say bye to one thing to do another? I can do lots of things at one time, and as much as I love to do films, I'd love to do ads as well!

Nobody wants to play a one-dimensional character.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

If a role has been too one-dimensional, I have turned it down.

I have never won big fights just doing one thing, being one-dimensional.

I always wanted to play both ends of the floor. I never wanted to be one-dimensional.

The more complicated the character, the better I am. It's the one-dimensional crap that I had to do for years that drove me crazy.

Guys have a lot more to worry about when they're fighting me than they do fighting Khabib. He's just one-dimensional.

No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs - I just feel that's going to be such a set-up for my ability in the future.

I never wanted to be a one-dimensional player.

When you're one-dimensional, someone can just focus on that and really stop that.

If you only play metal, it's going to be very apparent that you're a one-dimensional drummer.

You can't really be one-dimensional in this fight game. If you are, you're going to get knocked out or you're going to get finished. Either that, or you're just going to take a lot of damage and you're just not going to be able to last very long.