Combining Talents Quotes

I consider myself a martial artist and an actor. They can work together or individually. I love to do action. I love having a good role in which I can act and fight. That's double happiness.

If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?'

Interesting-looking people have always been comedians, and it's rare that someone who has the choice to model ends up being a comic. Except for maybe Whitney Cummings, but that's about it. That's why she's special: because she can combine it.

I like being able to marry the actor and the technician inside of me. It's really fulfilling. It exercises all of my creative muscles.

I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.

I'd love to be able to draw or play guitar or dance. All three at the same time - that's the talent for me.

I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.

To me, singing and acting have always gone hand and hand.

I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. I was always singing. I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all of it.

It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.

It is my philosophy that one should not excel in only one thing but try to strike a balance between different things.

I don't really make a distinction because when I'm acting, I feel like an actor, and when I DJ, I feel like a DJ, and when I play the guitar, I feel like a guitar player. I don't know which I prefer. I think I just like to perform, in some way or another.

I sang before I acted, but I always wanted to do them simultaneously.

I did many things in my life - I painted, and I'd play guitar, and wrote and did many things. But it all seemed to come together in making movies, and almost accidentally.

I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums.

I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.

I think I'm an athlete who's trained as an actor, and when you smash it all together, you get whatever Omari is doing as a performer right now.

Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.

I was acting before I did music, so it is an easier transition for me in my own mindset.

I was singing before I acted, but I was also attracted to drama, and, y'know, I got successful at that, which isn't a bad thing.

I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.

I write best when I sort of collide myself with another man. So I think, I hope, that a combination of me and Stieg Larsson will create something good.

I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.