Padma Lakshmi Quotes

I'm really open to everything.

Whatever script comes to me, I like everything.

Don't get married to the idea of something having to be one way.

I understand why it's hard to pin me down because I really relate to so many things. Like, for example, when people ask me what's my favorite music, I can't tell them. I love everything.

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.

I'm drawn more to quality, and so if the quality is in television, I go in that direction. If it's in film, I go in that direction. But I don't limit myself or discriminate against any of the mediums.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

I'm fortunately not, like, typecast. I don't have to just do one kind of thing; I can do all kinds of things that reflect different parts of me.

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 open to anything... just about anything.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

I think focusing limits you. As long as nothing that I'm doing suffers from my ADD in wanting to do everything, then I want to just keep doing everything. It keeps it fresh and fun.

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

I'm very open-minded.

I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

I listen to a lot of different styles of music. So it doesn't have to be just one thing. I prefer it. If it's not, I get bored very easily.

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

Don't limit yourself to one thing.

I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.

Every form has its merits. And I like to work in a lot of different forms.

If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine.