Talent Versatility Quotes

You know I'm an actress, not just a funny lady.

From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

I'm an actor. I'm not a performer. I'm not like a song and dance guy who can take a cane and a hat and do it. I would just you know. That's why I never did commercials.

I really love Robert Duvall, who I think is maybe the best American actor. I love Robert Duvall because the ability that he has to change and do the most amazing work.

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

I am equally a writer and an actor and a director.

Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.

I do think you are mainly thrown into one medium as an actor, and then hopefully you grow from there.

The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.

I adore actors/actresses that have range: someone that can transform into a character that is far beyond who they truly are. Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp are amazing at this.

I'm very fortunate that I really like acting, but it's not all I want to do. I love to sing. I love blues. I love jazz.

On Broadway and in the United States it's very different - people crossover all the time into television. I think that we'll get there [in London] in the end, but it has to start with who comes to see you in the musical and whether they can see beyond the dancing and the singing.

I could even do an Oriya film if the role excites me.

If people find me suitable for a role, which equally interests me, then I will think about it. Having said that, there is a perception that TV actors can't act in movies. I would like to break this myth if and when I decide to do films.

I think it's all the same animal for me. There are actors who sing, and there are actors who direct, and I also improvise. That's one thing I do as part of my acting. I don't really separate the two.

I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I'm a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called 'Fame L.A.' The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn't very funny, so they asked me, 'What else can you do?' So I played a singer.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

I like to be challenged as an actor, allowing myself to take up diverse roles. Even audiences get tired of watching their stars in similar roles over and over again.

I think that it's much easier for a recording artist to become an actor than for an actor to become a recording artist.

I'd hate to lose the character actress part of me, because, by God, the parts are much more interesting.

Historically, Disney Channel stars don't survive well outside of the Disney environment.

I do like being surprised by directors and producers and being offered parts I would never have considered, including parts that aren't necessarily obvious but which would test me.

Will Smith is one of my favorite actors, and he's also a triple threat. He successfully crossed over from music into acting.

I've had acting teachers say, 'If you want to do anything else but act, that means you're not an actor,' which I think is stupid!