Quotes About Mentor

Keeping faith in my acting credentials, my mentor offered me a powerful role in 'Veerasaami,' which had scope for me to emote on the screen. Film-buffs have now welcomed my acting skills and appreciate me for my good performance.

How can you not have preconceived notions and expectations of who Kelsey Grammer is gonna be? He's been in my living room since my TV was on. And he exceeded them all, somehow. He's such a beautiful and open-hearted collaborator and mentor and such a great family man. I was just lucky to get to work with him and learn from him.

When I was a player, all the pressures I felt created a lot of anxiety in me. I didn't know how to manage that on my own. I think I was missing someone - a manager, no doubt - who could teach me to control my emotions.

I think I'm a pretty good coach, but there are a lot of good coaches, a lot of young coaches.

I don't date dancers, but I've always wanted to teach guys how to dance.

I had a wonderful, an incredible dialect coach, Brendan Gunn, from Belfast, who has worked with Brad Pitt and Daniel Day Lewis, and me.

I would watch a lot of old tapes of David Letterman doing his talk show and a lot of interviews. I never had a mentor in my career because my approach has always been so different. Letterman stayed true to who he was, and his staff was always fantastic, so for me, that was always important.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

I had a drag mom but she didn't really teach me about makeup. She just basically stuck me into gigs. And then I borrowed clothes from her and her drag to play the gigs.

But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

It's good to have a good teacher, but you always need a pretty good student.

I've always said I'm a teacher at heart.

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

I was an elementary school teacher.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

I think all of us could play the teacher because we all grew up with teachers. It's just kind of this peeking-over-the-shoulder presence that we've all grown up knowing.

Only bad teachers lecture at a tutorial.

At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.