Quotes About Versatility

I've had my share of villains and played some fairly nasty characters. But I've been acting for so long. I started out as the girl next door. Now I'm the grandmother next door.

I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.

I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.

I love everybody in Gotham. Gotham suits me really well. I'll write anything from 'Nightwing' to 'Batgirl' and any of the villains.

I believe you really do need to be 360 in this industry. And being just a Vine creator was not my goal.

I've been dancing since I was two, learning so many different styles. I like dancing to rap and hip-hop, but also the Strokes, the Hives, and the Vines with carefree randomness. There's always a way to move to something.

I am lucky because I can - and I like to - mix the beautiful Caraceni jackets I inherited from my grandfather with a pair of Tsubi jeans or wear a favorite pin-striped suit from him for more formal occasions. I'm crazy about pinstripes and vintage fifties fabrics.

I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.

I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.

Don't be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture, formal with casual.

Viola Davis is just one of those actors who is never bad in anything. She could be in an awful film but you'd never come away from it saying she was bad.

I was working with the likes of Steve McQueen, Matthew McConaughey, Viola Davis, just running the gamut.

If you put your hand on the piano, you play a note. It's in tune. But if you put it on the violin, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. You have to figure it out.

I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

I've been playing the viola since I was 6 years old, and then I decided to switch it up a bit, so I've been playing the violin since I was 11. I started playing the piano when I was 11, and I started playing the guitar when I was 10.

I'm told I am over-choosy, and I shocked everybody by doing Jeffrey Archer. I did that to annoy everybody; sometimes, between Medea and Virginia Woolf, you can get punch-drunk.

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

I've now done virtually everything there is to do in TV presenting: I've done sport shows, comedy shows, and I'm now doing music, which is great for me.

When you experience playing in two different leagues, you learn to adapt; you pick up elements from the best virtues of each culture.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.

We don't want to categorize our music. Some people say you need a definite musical direction to give a group visibility.