Diversifying Skills Quotes

I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things.

I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.

I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.

The biggest concern for most actors has and always will be getting enough work - it's just part of our profession - but a real change is the idea that performers have to be more versatile and entrepreneurial in their careers.

There are fewer roles, and I've done so many things already that I don't want to repeat, so to find something you haven't done is harder. I don't want to play a country singer again.

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 don't have to forsake my career as a musician. I know how to write songs - that's not going to leave me. But I think it's good to explore some other avenues.

Growing up people would tell me: 'Yo, you only can do one thing. If you're going to rap, just rap. If you're going to sing, just sing.' It boxed me in. But I just figured out a way to show everything. It's like if you have a job interview, you want to present as many skills as you have.

To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

I just want to try everything. I want to see how good I can be, the best I can be at what I'm doing. I want to do everything. You know? I want to be in a musical. I want to do everything. I want to try and sing.

I'm still an athlete, I'm still a stockbroker, I'm still an actor. I think of it as more of an opening of new doors than an actual transition. I enjoy all of those things, which is why they remain a part of my life.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I thought, 'Whatever hits, I'll go that direction. If it's music, fine; if it's acting, fine.'

My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.

I have done a lot of things apart from acting, probably because acting was not very consistent in my life.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

I don't want to get typecast and I've been doing a lot of stuff to make that happen and not be the case.

You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

So as long as I can do something like this kids show or I can go off and film polar bears or I can do some radio and stuff, and sort of keep other strings in my bow working, then it's good.

If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.

I feel like if you can do multiple things, you shouldn't shy away from them.

Having done 'Misfits' for three years solid, you become known for doing one thing, so I've wanted to change things up as much as possible with each job.

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.