Quotes About Versatility

that it can be effectively done in almost any medium.

I love shifting between being super cute and aggressive. It's funny.

On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything.

When I first met my agent, I said, "If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette."

Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid.

Tom Finney would have been great in any team, in any match and in any age, even if he had been wearing an overcoat.

As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.

Josh [Gad] does such an amazing job playing a lovable idiot. Not many people can do that, as convincingly as he can.

cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety")

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything

Folks are funny. They can't stick to one way of thinking or doing anything unless they get a new reason for doing it ever so often.

I imagine you're actually rather good at what you do, in spite of certain disadvantages. Disadvantage and peculiar competence can go hand in hand, I find.

I am not a planner. I follow. Tell me what to do and no man alive does it better. But my mind is like fine wine; it travels badly.

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends.

Fortunately, in real life, we are not in danger of these bizarre extremes unless we consciously work our way into them. I can see no situation in which I will be presented with a Draconic choice between reading books and watching movies; or between English and Igbo. For me, no either/or; I insist on both. Which, you might say, makes my life rather difficult and even a little untidy. But I prefer it that way.

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

Any time in life you're tempted to think, 'Should I do this OR that?' instead, ask yourself, 'Is there a way I can do this AND that?' It's surprisingly frequent that it's feasible to do both things.

Any time in life you're tempted to think, 'Should I do this OR that?' instead, ask yourself, 'Is there a way I can do this AND that?

Know as much as you can, about as much as you can.

A woman with a mind is fit for any task.

I will not say that women have no character rather, they have a new one every day.

You are exercising what the poet Keats called your chameleon quality, the ability to 'tolerate a loss of self and a loss of rationality by trusting in the capacity to recreate oneself in another character or another environment'.

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.