Tamannaah Quotes

When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.

I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because maybe those things were steppingstones to where I am now.

I can barely remember what I was like 36 years ago when I was 21 years old.

I'm proud of Larry Sanders and proud of every single person who went on that journey. It's a very special show to me, and I've learned a lot of lessons from it. I need to find something where I can learn some more lessons, and then I'll do that project.

I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.

I don't think my music has changed to reflect getting married or having kids. But... if you want to continue to write your own songs, you've got to find deeper stuff to write about. You've got to go to different places.

I feel like I grew up in such a big way in the past couple of years, in a way that I never thought I would. You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home.

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.

I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.

It's never a surprise to me that a job that I'm doing reflects what I'm going through or what I'm thinking about.

I've never looked at - with the exception of little snippets - very much of anything I've done in the last 15, 20 years.

I used to worry that if I wasn't having a dynamic life, then I wouldn't have anything to talk about.

We are all the same. Some people wear vests and live in Missouri, and some people wear tuxes and live in Hollywood. But we all talk about what's going on in the news. We have relationships. We make mistakes.

I love winter. It's a beautiful time, but also a melancholic time, a reflective time, and I'd come to a point in my life where I felt I had to make certain decisions about my career.

I've changed my character 100 per cent; if not, I could never have become a manager.

I got a young black woman agent, and she kinda just knew what I would be attracted to. She sent me this pilot for 'Insecure.' I never saw myself as a comedy director, but when I read those pages, I said, 'Wow - this is my life on the page.'

When I got pregnant, I knew I wasn't anywhere in my career, that I had not arrived. I was still on my adventure, and so I said to the child in my belly, 'I am so happy for you to come, but you should know I'm still on my way, and you'll have to come with me and be in my rucksack.'

I personally can barely remember what I was like before I came to college, what made me happy or worried or confident. I don't remember what I expected in my future, except that 'President of the United States' was about halfway up the ladder.

At some point, and maybe it's a function of age, you've had enough of it. You start to slide in other directions. A lot of comedy writers begin to turn the dial. With me, it was a switch. Comedy off. Drama on.

I have become the person I am today, as a result of both the successes and the scars in my life.

My manager always brings up this fact that when I was 10 and first met her I said I never want to do movies and TV.

People I knew in high school have gone in many directions, as I have gone in my particular direction. They now have different and absorbing interests of their own, just as I have mine.

I get a lot of letters from people saying, 'I want to follow in your footsteps,' and I don't know how to tell people how to follow in my footsteps, because I can't give them the opportunities that I had.

Everything that I've experienced, work or personal is all connected so I'm proud of the whole thing.

What I went through in personal life had a big impression on my professional choices.