Philippe Perrin Quotes

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.

I feel like any experience you can have which adds to your repertoire of things you've done and can add to your character - I'm willing to try.

I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.

I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want to be the guy who gets really good at one thing and just does that over and over and over again.

By having a little bit of knowledge about many different things, it enables me to talk to people about a subject that they would not ordinarily think I could talk about. It's a lever for me, I suppose.

I went to a small school, so I had to be a jack of all trades and master a few.

I think when I got into broadcasting I told myself, 'I don't ever want to be pigeonholed as one thing.'

There's a lot of positions I like to play. I think maybe the diversity is something positive.

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

I'm open to all opportunities.

When you're educated, it allows you to be more worldly. It's more than just what happens in a classroom.

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

It's every teacher's job to be rigorous about constantly being open to new ideas and innovation.

You have tons of talents everywhere you go, so you can't be stuck to only one promotion.

I'm talented enough to do a lot of different things.

I am a person always with an open mind.

The man who writes for hire has an obligation, if only to himself, to keep an open mind and to absorb new ideas.

I want to do different roles.

I like to do a wide variety of things, and acting, particularly in the theatre, has given me that opportunity.

I have never left the Tamil film industry and have always maintained that I'm open to good projects. I have not restricted myself to any one industry.

A responsible Warrior is one who has proved able to observe and to learn.

In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to be managers, and controllers, and to accept things, and not to question too much.