Quotes About Versatility

My audiences are generally mixed. Some people like techno, others are into the pop music, and others enjoy my film music.

I like everything from hard-style techno to rock n' roll.

With the advanced editing technologies, it's not difficult to play double roles these days. It can be done easily.

We must become Icelanders in soccer, Israelis in defending our land, Japanese in technology.

I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.

I've worked every job under the sun, from waitressing in my teens, to clocking hours on a construction site in London (I have degrees in quantity surveying and construction). I modelled on the side and starred on reality TV in Ireland.

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.

In the olden days you cut your teeth on the northern club circuit. I've cut mine on the southern black-tie circuit.

I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.

Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.

I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

As a child, I have always wanted to have my fingers in many pies, and working on television was always on my checklist.

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.

If you can master a four-hour morning television show, you can really do anything on television.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

I think it's important for me to play in different position so if the boss wants me to play on the left or behind the striker I can play where the boss tells me to play.

I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people's songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel.

You get pigeonholed. Some people are film stars, and some are theatre stars who do one-off telly. Somehow, I get into long-running series.

I love being able to do a bit of theatre, do a bit of telly, and do a bit of film.

I have sung in many languages in my decades long career and Telugu is one of them.

I've done a host of Tamil and Telugu films, a Bengali one, too.

I've acted in Hindi, English, Tamil and Telugu films.

I have done Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi movies, and each actor that I've worked with is different from the other.

When I am in Mumbai, I am called a director. In Chennai, I am called a hero. In the Telugu States, I am called a dance master.