Quotes About Multitalented

I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music.

In broadcasting, there's a lot of longevity offered to people like Griff Rhys Jones and Stephen Fry, who are polymaths more than comics. We're comics first and foremost.

Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had written some poetry, and she was a game designer.

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.

Some artists are like ready-salted crisps and just do what they are supposed to do. But I'm every flavour in one. I'm one of those variety packs.

I want people to see I can do a variety of roles, not just tailback.

You name it, I've done it: circus, Chautauqua, variety, movies, stage, radio, TV, personal appearances.

I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

I'd rather be a Jack-of-all-trades than master of one. If I became an icon, where my whole life was music, I would probably have become a vegetable. I wouldn't be able to have all these talents I have today and be an interesting 'character.'

I feel like I'm quite versatile. I want to do lots of different styles.

It's important for any player to be versatile enough to be able to play in different positions.

I think being versatile is important.

My only plan is to be versatile. That's how I started, and that's how I will continue.

The hardest thing as somebody who does both is - and I'm very serious as an actor, and I consider myself very serious as a musician, engineer, music artist - is learning that it's OK to be versatile.

I have always aimed for versatility.

That's what my game is built around: versatility.

I really work at a part to do it to the best of my ability. And I'm studying acting as well as keeping up with my singing and dancing lessons.

I wanna be the best at what I do. I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna act. That's about it.

There's something really natural to me about being what they call in the business a "hyphenate." Being a musician-actor or writer-musician-actor.

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

I am more than just one thing. I think my acting has helping my dancing, and vice versa. And I write.