Divya Dutta Quotes

In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

If you haven't had a few dents in your resume, you haven't tried.

I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.

I never really marketed myself, so each job I was given was a new marketing tool, and that would be the way I marketed myself.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

I didn't want to call and schedule shows or call and make people listen to my music. Luckily, my friends and family really stayed on me and made me put myself out there.

I am so not a pageant girl, but I signed up for the Miss Junior Florida contest because I thought it would be good experience.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

I always tell other actors that work begets work. You never know where your next job is going to lead you, down the road.

I'm doing activations with companies you would never think of. Not to say this in a braggadocious way, but I'm not putting myself in a box. The only thing that goes in a box is Chinese food and your sneakers - not me.

At the beginning of my career before anything started propelling, I used to blow up everybody. I was trying to work with whoever got next.

My job in MTV was my first real presenting job and I had no real idea what I was doing, but you kind of learn just by doing.

I'm realizing the more jobs I do and as my career goes on that there seems to be a theme of choosing the things I'm most scared of doing in a weird way. I've never really taken a job and not been scared of some sort of aspect of it. It's the challenge of it, I think.

Every time I do something new, it makes me a bit stronger. Playing huge shows, being invited to play with Nile Rodgers after the Brits - all are mindblowing and I have a great team around me who are empowering. It makes all the difference.

I just want to learn as much as I can, and that comes from the people I surround myself with. So whether that is on a one-million-dollar movie, or 100-million-dollar movie, it doesn't really matter.

It doesn't matter how much time you do in NXT; you never stop learning.

I've played under many managers - some fantastic, some average, and some not so good. Even if it's not intentional, you log the good ideas and the bad ones.

As you go through your career you learn what works for you and what doesn't and you pick things up with experience.

I'm just grasping everything, getting as much knowledge as I can, and continuing to learn and not being afraid to take challenges and actually take action.

I'm not the type who will go and ask people for roles.

Bottom line is don't ever be afraid to fail.

I would say I was lucky that I got different kinds of roles.

A lot of guys just can't handle the spotlight and the pressure, so they shy away from it, like 'oh, I don't want to be in it.' That's never me.

Every year that I have under my belt, I'm a lot more confident and a lot more prepared for the challenges of being a manager.

If I could borrow anything from Miley, it would be her stage confidence. For me, that's just going to come with time.