Dual Talent Quotes

For me, I was a musician long before I was an actor.

I think it's nourishing to do both comedy and drama.

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

Movies have been great, but theatre is home. I've never been able to compare the two because they are different, special worlds. I'm just lucky to have a place in both.

The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.

I've always gone back and forth between acting and music, but for music I'm not trying to be a pop star - I just like to do it.

Half the people tell me, 'I love 'Go All the Way,' but why do you have to write all those schlocky ballads.' And half say, 'I love 'All By Myself,' but why do you waste your time with this rock 'n' roll stuff?' I'd like to think that I could do both.

There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.

I'm not more into one scene than any other, and that's why I feel very lucky to be able to go into two different styles of music and be successful at both.

I'm a writer first and a singer second.

I really love both acting and singing equally.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.

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 am an actress first, a singer second.

I made my living as a theater actor before I got my record deal.

I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.

People ask me all the time which I would prefer doing more, but I honestly can't say. When I'm filming, I'm like, 'No, this is my favorite,' and when I'm writing music and recording and performing, it's like, 'This is definitely it.'

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.

I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

A lot of the people who saw me in the 'Lethal Weapon' movies didn't even know I was a singer.

Some people are songwriters, and some people are just recording artists. I'm both. I write and record.

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

My father was an actor. Both of my older brothers are actors. My younger sister is an actress. For me, that's my job; that's my craft. But then all through school and through drama school, I was gigging and running nights and playing in bands, and I just didn't want to let that go.