Harriet Walter Quotes

There is so much talent in Australia.

The people who work in the fashion industry and the people who work in the film industry have a lot in common. They're very creative. Their eye is very aesthetic.

I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic, and I was good at drawing. The options before me were architecture, fashion, and interior designing.

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

I think in Israel there is so much talent in the TV world because there's less movies done.

I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry... Music, film, TV, books, art. I love being around creative people.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

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

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

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

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers.

My family is filled with amazingly talented painters, musicians, vocalists.

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

Neither of my parents are involved in theater or acting, but they are very artistic. My mom is a painter; she's an artist. She went to school for fashion illustration. My father is into collecting antiques and fine wine, so they're both really creative people.

I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer, I'm a composer, I'm a producer, and I love the medium. I love film very, very much. I think it's the most expressive of all of the art mediums.

Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.

I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to be more likely to produce philosophers, people in the arts, unusually brilliant scientists.