Quotes About Multitasking

It is not easy acting and directing yourself because you have to face the camera as well as look at the scene through the lens.

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.

I can't do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.

I get distracted easily.

There are too many distractions on a computer.

Whatever career you are in, you always have other distractions.

I'm mature enough to understand I can find time to do other things without disturbing my focus for basketball.

I have divided my week among my various businesses. So that way, I am able to concentrate on all of them as well as my film work.

I keep explaining this to people: I can do more than one thing.

Whether it's working on five or 10 different things at the same time, I've got to stay in people's faces.

I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another.

You have to be able to process 1,000 things that are happening at one time and be able to decide the right technique to use. And have the reaction between what your eyes are seeing and what your hands and feet need to do.

I did not grow up with a spatula in my hand. I didn't even cook that much in high school. I was busy being a teenager and doing everything that goes along with that.

I think all teenagers feel a lot of things at once; everything's going crazy in our brain.

Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.

I stretch while I am brushing my teeth to save time, and my son likes to join in and thinks it's hilarious.

I do 100 squats while I brush my teeth.

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.

As a child, I have always wanted to have my fingers in many pies, and working on television was always on my checklist.

I'm unapologetic about multi-tasking. From being a television producer to a musician, an actor, and a film producer, I would like to believe there has been growth in my career.

I remember my first agent telling me - because they found me as an actor, but I was probably more interested in writing and maybe directing - they were like, 'Well, you can't do both things.' And I was like, 'I'm gonna show you.'

I read a lot, but in comparison to my family, it's nothing. I keep telling them, 'I'm the illiterate of the family.' My grandfather used to read five books at a time.

I enjoyed working with Vikram Kumar, as he is an amazing director who is full of ideas, and he tells me that he has different compartments in his brain in which he places different story ideas and works on them simultaneously.

I like to think that I listen to Classic FM while domestic goddessing and, truth be told, I often do, but you know sometimes classical music can get a bit hectic and I just want to turn all the violins right down. That's when I pop the telly on.