Quotes About Mentorship

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.

Get smart, work hard and remain truthful to those who have taught you something to better love and serve your dancing.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.

I am always giving advice to young players about how things are, how important it is to work hard every day to reach the glory days.

I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.

For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really really really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

There's a lot of young guys coming along, but I'd like to say to the various financiers, don't forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you.

I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it's done. If you can, watch the people that you like, how they work.

I love coaching. I would probably be coaching. I would work in athletes and work with the youth. I would maybe do personal development and athletics. I would coach in high school or college.

That's kind of how I've based my career. I find talented people and beg me to let me work with them.

I'm aware of how difficult it is to work and be a mom - I have an 11-year-old son - and I would love to help anyone else who is trying to get into the field.

I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.

I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default.