Vikram Chatwal Quotes

I'm a writer slash designer slash TV personality.

I'm not just trying to be good at one thing and then call it a day. I want to be like Bruno Mars.

Laurence Fishburne - he's a great actor, but he dances and sings, too? He can just do everything.

The uniqueness about me is I don't do one thing perfectly or great. I do a little bit of everything. That's what makes me so unique. I'm just trying to master a little bit of everything.

I've always wanted to be - I know people think this is an insult - but a jack of all trades.

I could say I'm a writer or that I'm a musician but I don't really do music; I do music to go with things I'm developing. Then I do act in a few things, but I'm not really an actor. I'm not a comedian, but I am known for comedy. I just don't know. I feel like I'm a slightly interdisciplinary jack of all trades.

I'm a modern-day renaissance man.

The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist.

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.

Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

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

I've always loved to write. I've been writing a lot longer than I've been acting, and I hope to continue to do that and maybe do it a little bit more in terms of, like, writing movies that I could potentially act in.

My plan is to stay in New York for as long as I can and do some theater out here and just keep working creatively.

It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man.

I think 'renaissance woman' is a really fancy way of saying that I'm scatter-brained and non-commital.

Modeling and my films in the South helped groom me for Bollywood and I had the confidence it required.

I always wanted to play both ends of the floor. I never wanted to be one-dimensional.

I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some.

I don't just rap - I sing and I dance as well.

I'm an entertainer - that's what I do.

I'm not an artist: I'm a businesswoman. Well, maybe an artist/businesswoman.

Vidal was a novelist, an essayist, a playwright, a screenwriter, and many other things. Buckley started a magazine, hosted a TV show, lead a political movement, and was a master debater. They were multihyphenates in a way that you rarely see anymore.

Obviously, I carved out a pretty successful path and career for myself. But I'm kind of fascinated with, for lack of a better term, Renaissance men. And women. People who do a lot of different things.

As someone that really likes painting and visual art but also likes video and movies and also music and recording and style and clothes, it was hard to pick what to do with my life.