John Burnside Quotes

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

It's my dream career to do as many different things as possible and for as long as possible, to stretch myself in as many different directions as I can.

I try not to stick to any one thing, you know. That's always been important to me.

I'm big on showing people versatility. I'm constantly trying to push myself to break barriers and the idea that we have to stay in one lane.

The idea is to resist being typecast. I like doing different things.

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do.

I don't want to pigeonhole myself in one character or genre. I want to challenge myself as much as I can.

I've always strived to keep mixing it up, keep doing different things, and work in all different parts of our business.

Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.

I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.

I like to keep doing something new and different so people can't say I'm doing the same thing all the time. I like to challenge myself.

I just wanted to get out there and do different roles and try new things.

I'm open to trying multiple different types of styles.

I don't like to limit myself.

I realise that I'm a bit of a dabbler but it's nice to do stuff that's different.

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

I want to try everything. I don't want to limit myself to anything. I want to discover as many characters as I can. I just want to explore.

I want to challenge myself in new mediums; I want to leave myself open to different things.

My grandparents have taught me that since I was younger: just to be involved in a whole bunch of different things so you don't get burnt out, and you know what you like to do and what you don't like to do.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

In my work, I'm passionate about trying different things and being okay if I mess up. Now I'm trying to bring that into my own life.

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.

I really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am.