Quotes About Versatility

Portability is for canoes.

I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it. I could write a syndicated column for teenagers under the name "Debbi Lynn" or I could smuggle gold into India or I could become a $100 call girl, and none of it would matter.

The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.

When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room.

I have a company attitude about my work. I don't like to do just one thing I like to do a lot of things.

I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.

When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.

It's very, very rare to find five roles in one piece where we'd all jump at the chance to play any of them.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

And I don't want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn't have built the confidence to do acting if I didn't model.

You have to remain positive and just try your best and part of that is doing things that continually surprise people, including yourself, so that you don't get pigeon-holed.

I think that's a really cool thing about my line. There are so many sets, but you can literally mix and match everything with everything.

More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.

Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.