Man is designed to be a comprehensivist .
Engineering has proven to be one of the most fruitful tracks of study in the job market, as the skills and training developed by an engineering program are far more versatile than many believed.
[My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration to me because of the very kinds of things that he did and the kind of life he lived.
Clive Barker is just genius, and he's incredibly gifted in so many different ways. He can write and direct and paint and do all these different things, and he can do them all extremely well.
I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.
I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting.
The skill set that I think we have as actors is so cool because they train you in ways that you never thought you'd be trained. And that's skills that they can't take back. So as you go further in your career, you can dump all these skills into things.
Just because someone raps, doesn't mean that's all they can do. A lot of people are multi-talented.
I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
I want to be super well-rounded.
I can play a lot of positions, but obviously I haven't had a lot of practice at those different positions.
I am a striker, but I love playing wide.
