Professional Adaptability Quotes

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

I don't have a preferred medium of work, but like all actors, I do like to move from one to the other if possible.

Very good players have no problem moving to a different country.

I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.

If it's a good part in a good movie, I'll do it.

I've been pretty lucky - or slothful - in that I've never been a 'career builder.' I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that's left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with 'Caprica,' the complex, dark and very smart script was the draw.

I've considered myself a writer since I was 7 years old, but I've done a lot of jobs along the way. I enjoyed waiting tables and tending bar during college, especially when it got busy, so I might like managing a big restaurant. In fact, I might like managing many kinds of businesses or organizations.

I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

It's just the story of my career, really. I will have good weeks; I'll have bad weeks. It's just a roller-coaster.

I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.

And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you're just going to get swamped. You've got to be flexible, and you've got to go with the flow. That's what I try to do as an actor.

When I'm doing more than one movie because it makes one not the end of the world. It makes me feel like, "Okay, I won. I had a victory on this one, today. And I lost on this one, today." I can keep going back-and-forth.

People ask me, 'Why are you doing a show on Showtime?' Because I'll do anything really, I don't really care, I'll do a show on Nickelodeon if I thought it was well written. Actually Nickelodeon's kind of awesome.

I'm glad I've had the comic work. I plan to do others, but I could lay it down if I had to choose. I hope I don't have to, though.

I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.

I would love to finish my career at Real Madrid. But I would not cause a scene if, one day, a coach were to come along and decide he doesn't need me. Only then would I look elsewhere. And I repeat: Real is my priority.

Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometimes you have to, like when you're in a studio and you're doing fashion shooting, but I don't even do it then.

In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.

There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.

People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.

I have never left the Tamil film industry and have always maintained that I'm open to good projects. I have not restricted myself to any one industry.

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.

Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.

My mindset was that I was always going to be in Toronto my whole career, but I was never naive.

I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do.