Quotes About Multitalented

Every actor wants to be everybody - play all the roles.

I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.

Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.

I never produce a song, whether writing it or making a beat, and give it a wack visual or wack performance. I'm like a trifecta.

I don't really trust musical artists that don't also do visual art.

What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

Robert Lindsay is a legend, he can do anything. Sing, dance, make you laugh. I was in awe of him on 'Hornblower.'

The next RuPaul is an actor, a singer, a personality, not someone who can just get up at a bar. So I'm looking to do all those things.

I am ambidextrous. I write with my right hand but played basketball in high school with my left.

I've been playing guitar since I was 6 and then drums, bass, and piano since I was 10 years old.

I play the piano and that's how I learned about music. I then taught myself the guitar, drums, percussion and various other things, such as the bazooka, the mandolin, the Theremin, the alpine horn, the didgeridoo.

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

Every performer should learn a little bit of everything.

I'm a better writer than a performer. Everyone wants to feel like they're a bit of a polymath, and I certainly feel that.

Performing has always been instinctive to me. I remember people saying, 'he doesn't know if he's a chef or an entertainer.' But what's wrong with being both? It's like saying you can't run the 100 and the 200 metres.

I love London - its where I'm born and bred - but New York just has such an energy when you're walking around, and if you act or you write and you act like I do, its just such a good town for you because people here like people who can do more than one thing.

I am a wearer of many hats." I

Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you're a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.

I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it.