Zawe Ashton Quotes

I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.

I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.

I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.

I like change. I don't like being in the same room for too long.

There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour. I think it's a good lesson that we should never believe too much in any one thing - because the next day it's out, and if we're stuck to it, we're out, too.

I've always strived to keep mixing it up, keep doing different things, and work in all different parts of our business.

I'm pretty open. I like doing different things.

I want to do different things all the time.

It's my dream career to do as many different things as possible and for as long as possible, to stretch myself in as many different directions as I can.

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

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 like sticking to just one thing; it bores me.

Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.

In the United States a man builds a house to spend his latter years in it and he sells it before the roof is on. He plants a garden and lets [rents] it just as the trees are coming into bearing. He brings a field into tillage and leaves other men to gather the crops. He embraces a profession and gives it up. He settles in a place which he soon afterward leaves to carry his changeable longings elsewhere. If his private affairs leave him any leisure he instantly plunges into the vortex of politics and if at the end of a year of unremitting labour he finds he has a few days' vacation, his eager curiosity whirls him over the vast extent of the United States, and he will travel fifteen hundred miles in a few days to shake off his happiness.

I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.

I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.

My personality is I enjoy constant change and mixing it up.

There's many sides to a coin and one person can in fact do a lot of different things.

I realise that I'm a bit of a dabbler but it's nice to do stuff that's different.

I never do the same thing twice.

I don't want to get stuck practicing basketball all day, so that's why I'm always moving: because I don't like to be stuck in one mind-frame.

I know I'm in a 'jack of all, master of none' situation, but I like it that way.