Multiple Skills Quotes

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

Film is like sculpture, writing, acting, technical arts, all sorts of arts. And that's why I wanted to do it for so long, because it would include so many places for attention.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

The main thing is to have strings to your bow. You get your badges, you see where life is, and then you see what things come your way, if any.

A truly great artist has many talents.

I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.

I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium.

My secret is being not terrible at a lot of things.

My first job is to defend, but I know I have the quality to score.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like that. I used to be a landscape gardener. I loved that job. But I'd like to be involved with entertainment. Singing or something, I guess.

Most tech companies do one trick and die. If you can do two or three or four, that's where wealth gets created.

For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.

I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.

What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

I was always into different stuff: custom cars, electrical, construction, tattooing, decor, you name it.

I'm not a one-trick horse.

The great all-rounders were not considered part-timers in one particular department. They could turn games at any stage and on any surface.

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

I didn't want to limit my income so I decided to master all aspects of stunting.

Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.

There's that saying: 'God gave you talent, and if you don't use it He'll take it away from you.' And I always said, 'I don't want God to come down and take my talents away.' So, by using all these talents and being successful in all of them, I've always got something to fall back on.

I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing.