Laura Mennell Quotes

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.

I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea.

What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

I have a pretty big range of interests. I love art; I love going to the museums. I dabble in painting, and although I'm not very good at it, I enjoy it.

When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make crafts.

I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

I knew my focus was going to be somewhere in the arts. I've always painted. I've always sung. I didn't know when or how it was going to happen - or what it was going to be.

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.

I was in more of the artsy crowd in high school.

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.