Diverse Skills Quotes

I'm more than just a shooter.

I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas.

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

I do admire a lot of artists now who are completely multi-faceted - they're doing seven different jobs all at once and it doesn't seem to faze them whatsoever. It just astonishes me completely and I have nothing but admiration for them.

My whole life, I've been training for something, whether it be baseball or football or wrestling or martial arts.

When you come to the end of a TV project, it's good to be able - and I'm kind of lucky - that I can just go into a different medium, make another album, or do whatever.

A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.

Put on a camera and put on some whatever, and you're an actor. Put me in a cage, I'm a fighter. Put me somewhere else - I'm in an ocean, I'm a surfer. I don't know what I am, I just do it all. And I want to be good at everything.

There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

Specialization is for insects.

It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.

Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.

I'm a utility infielder. There's always somebody who is better at a specific task than I am, but I can pitch in at a bunch of different things as needed.

It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.

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

My problem is that I can do variety of roles.

You need to be very adaptable to have a long career. If you're not taught by somebody who knows different styles you'll be left by the wayside very quickly.

I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.

The hardest thing as somebody who does both is - and I'm very serious as an actor, and I consider myself very serious as a musician, engineer, music artist - is learning that it's OK to be versatile.

Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.

I'm a caterer, interior decorator - a lot of hobbies people don't know I do.

I am a woman of many talents and they're all just pieces of the puzzle that make me and make my career.

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It's been quite an evolution.