Multidisciplinary Artist Quotes

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.

I'm a writer-director-actor, which I've always kind of enjoyed. I compared it to the Olympic biathlon. "Not only can he cross-country ski, but he's a terrific marksman as well." I want people to say, "You mean that writer performed a tracheotomy?" That's right, I do everything.

I am equally a writer and an actor and a director.

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

There was a time when I was like, 'I'm a dramatic actor,' 'I'm a comedian'... There's no line anymore. You have to be able to cross over.

I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.

I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.'

Some people don't listen to my music because they say that I am an artist. And some don't want to go to my gallery shows, because they say I am a musician.

I feel really lucky to get to do comedy, and music, at all. I want to do as much as I can.

I think it's all the same animal for me. There are actors who sing, and there are actors who direct, and I also improvise. That's one thing I do as part of my acting. I don't really separate the two.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

I'm an artiste... I dance, I act, and I do a lot of things that's got to do with arts, and that's my space. I feel happiest in that space.

I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music.

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.

I've always been an actor who works in every medium - I've worked in theater and film and television - I've never seen any difference between the three.

I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.

I'm a writer who just happens to draw.