Quotes About Talent

I think when I was 7, at school they got us all to write the story of Joseph and his brothers. I got a bit carried away and wrote 12 pages - everybody else wrote a page. The teacher was so impressed by it that she put it up on the wall for parents' evening. I thought, 'Oh, this is something that I really like that I also seem to be quite good at.'

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.

I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.

I had gone to a talent show - I was interested in American hip-hop music - with my older brother, to another town, and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if you're 12: if you draw, you draw. If you're 85 and you paint, you paint.

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

Whenever I really want to, I can paint. It kinda just goes by my emotions and feelings at the time.

I always wanted to be an artist. I always knew that I wanted to paint, or dance, or sing, or act, or write.

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.

I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, but I do play the banjo.

There a lot of other things I love to do. I consider myself as an artist, so I dance, I paint, I sing, so as long as I'm creating, I'm happy.

Designers are not artists. They may have the talent of one, but if they want to work in that way they should paint or sculpt.

I paint. A lot of people don't know that.

I always pride myself on being an inside and outside player and pride myself on what I can do inside the paint.

A joke is just a paintbrush. It takes someone funny to paint something beautiful.

I did many things in my life - I painted, and I'd play guitar, and wrote and did many things. But it all seemed to come together in making movies, and almost accidentally.

My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.

Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.