Karen Civil Quotes

I'm really open to everything.

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

I encourage people to be floaters: don't stay in one group for too long.

Right-wing, pivot, centre-back, full-back, right, left. I've never felt uncomfortable anywhere.

Don't get married to the idea of something having to be one way.

As an outsider myself, I always mixed myself with different groups...I've never been afraid to go into a different space and relate to those people, because I don't have a place where I belong and that means I belong everywhere.

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

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

I don't see myself as a person who just does one thing. I understand that sometimes that might sound a bit unprofessional. But I disagree.

It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

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.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

I think focusing limits you. As long as nothing that I'm doing suffers from my ADD in wanting to do everything, then I want to just keep doing everything. It keeps it fresh and fun.

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

You can learn a little bit from everybody, so you should be able to work a bit with everybody.

If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine.

I get influence from everybody and everything.

It's reassuring to have people acknowledge the fact that I can be versatile.

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

I've learned it's important to never lock yourself down into one thing - you need to remain fluid and open to all possibilities.

It's important, as a young person of color, to see yourself reflected in the media.