Quotes About Versatility

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

Every actor is a character actor.

My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder.

I always saw myself as a character actor.

I'm a character actor, always have been.

Though I'm considered a leading man, I still consider myself a character actor. Because acting, to me, is creating a character, not playing the same thing all the time.

My characteristics are to control the game, stay in the middle and organise the team, but I can adapt as well.

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

I think, without a doubt, I'd outshine The Rock because he can't do quite what I do, but he is good at the guitar, and he's got some chops to him, so I don't think you need to think about it too much.

There's only seven chords, so you got to use the same ones over and over. It's all in what you do with them.

You know how you see Chris Brown and all these guys playing basketball? Chris Brown is actually not bad so I feel like it's okay that some of these basketball players are trying to rap.

I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all.

I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.

If I am doing a certain kind of cinema, that does not mean I hate the other kind.

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

I don't plan or schedule my career thinking first I will play a common man, then a police officer, then a superhero. I love good scripts, and I don't care if I play the main part in it or not. I want to be a part of good films. That's my dream... 'Jacobinte Swargarajyam' was that film for me.

I don't want to be stuck to one character. I think that's what can happen when you take on a superhero movie.

I even sang once at the opening of a supermarket. You name it, I've done it.

I try to do justice to whatever roles I take up and it really doesn't bother me whether I am paired opposite a superstar or a newcomer.

As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there's nothing that I'm embarrassed of.

Joe Walsh is somebody who... he's a writer, obviously, and he's a singer-songwriter, whatever, but at the end of the day, when it comes to the Eagles, he's there to play guitar, and he's there to supply whatever is needed for that band, and that is what I feel with Metallica.

I have played lead roles, supporting roles and also miniscule roles in my career so far, and have never been image conscious.

I don't want to be just considered a breakout comedic supporting actor. I want to be a breakout actor in anything that's a lead.