Rachael Harris Quotes

You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.

I've had great opportunities to show different sides of myself, but the challenge will always be getting either people to let you do it or finding the right things to do in order to do it.

My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.

For the guys who feel like they are glued to one position or one sport, don't do it man, do whatever you want to do.

I can't sit still for long and need creative outlets and think you should try different things. I mean, if you're a musician all of your life, you gotta try different things. I really believe you can have it all.

I hope to always keep stretching myself and not stay in one box or lane.

It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.

I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.

If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.

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 have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.

In every role, a part of me gets to come out.

The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

I think when you do things outside of what you're interested in, you meet people and get ideas to bring in to whatever it is you love doing the most.

You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.

I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.

I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.