Quotes About Versatility

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

Any role that is well-written, exciting and something that I am comfortable with interests me whether it's comic or tragic. It could be in a film, play or TV.

I started singing backgrounds for Mary Mary and Usher during 'Confessions.' Then I jumped to working with Anthony Hamilton, Jill Scott; jumped again to Kanye West, The Killers. I kept saying, 'OK, this is the last time; then I get to do my music.'

I'm trying to be number one all the way around. It's not just the South, it's not just the East, it's not the West, I'm going for across the world, you know what I'm saying? This is where I'm coming from.

I can watch anything from 1970s West Coast rock to 1990s electro-funk - I don't care.

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

I could have pigeonholed us and wrote a whole record like 'Pumped Up Kicks,' and we would have been this breezy, nostalgic West Coast Beach Boys recreation band. That's not the type of writer I am. Once I try one style, I move on.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I'd eventually run out of steam on that, and that would've been the end of it.

I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

I've done a little bit of everything now, but I would like to do a Western because I've never done that.

I've never done an actual Western, and I would love to do that. I've done drama and dark comedy stuff. I've never really done a romantic comedy either. I would do that.

I'm really excited for people to be able to see what else I can do besides high heels and magic powers.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

I am a passionate actor, but I am also very practical.

I don't have a favorite drink. I don't do favorites of anything, practically.

I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

Whenever I practise in the nets, I practise each and every situation - be it with the new ball, be it with the old ball, or death bowling at the death.

I have always been the kind of guy to adjust to anything. I never cared where I was going to sleep or what court I was going to practise on.

I've done admin work, preaching and teaching, youth ministry, marital counseling, etc.

I am the type of person who can get ready in precisely five minutes, so I obviously just mix and match and wear whatever I am feeling like on that day.

Whether I was The Legend Killer, The Viper, The Apex Predator, nothing's really changed.

I see myself more as an action director. All right, I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action but I like to blend and cross genres. I don't want to be too predictable.

It's kind of hard with two moves. I feel like you can't always be so predictable. You can be as strong or fast as you want, but speed-chop and power move aren't always going to work.