Quotes About Versatility

Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.

I don't see myself as a person who just does one thing. I understand that sometimes that might sound a bit unprofessional. But I disagree.

I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.

Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well.

Why limit yourself to one discipline or field of study?

The thing is that I'm naturally curious about a lot of different disciplines in music, and I enjoy doing them. And as long as people are nice enough to let me, I'll keep on trying.

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.

While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things.

I'm just this committed dilettante. I think what I've found is that I've tried to do a lot of different things in my life and discovered I'm not as good at them as I'd want to be.

I never discriminate between roles being offered.

As an actor, you need to use everything at your disposal.

I've probably done myself a disservice as a brand because the movies I've made. They've all been completely different.

I can distribute, I can lock up on defense.

I think we can all be divas, but as an actress, you can't only be the diva; that would be boring. But sometimes, perhaps, it's fun.

I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.

I feel like my work has been incredibly diverse.

I knew I am not star material. I cannot sing or dance, nor am I good for action. I can only perform for which strong, diverse roles are needed.

As an actor, I am looking for diverse roles.

It's a blessing that I get to play such diverse roles.

Career diversification ain't a bad thing.

I'm big on diversity. My music is very diverse; I don't want it to ever be typecasted.

The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity - a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums.