Quotes About Talent

I think it's hard for Aaliyah to be duplicated, because she had her own lane.

I'm in the lane where I can make music but also have it be funny and still good at the same time.

I am available as an actor across languages.

I have been playing since I was five and it is a large part of my life.

I think I've gotten really good at putting on lashes. I can do it with my hand while people need tweezers or something to put them on.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

Very few have the talent to make others laugh without being laughed at.

Whenever I have launched a new talent, I have taken complete responsibility, like I am launching my own kid.

Laura Marling is Joni Mitchell-level for me.

I love acting and really think that's what I want to do. It's weird seeing myself up there, but I'm used to it now. But otherwise, I have backups. Doctor, lawyer.

I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.

There is no better lawyer than Cristiano Ronaldo.

I don't come from a creative background. I don't know anyone in my family who is a musician or actor or singer. It's a lot of teachers, lawyers. Professional stuff like that.

I became an actress because I'm lazy. I wouldn't apply myself at school.

Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

Leadership is something I was born with.

Most leading actresses have this energy, this 'Look at me. Here I am.' They're powerful; they're beautiful.

'Leading man' just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

I've been lucky to find character parts that are leads as well.

If he can hit, he can hit. I don't care if he came from Class Z league.

I don't feel I could've played major league baseball.

I don't care about winning an MVP - the MVP doesn't mean you're the best player in the league.

I'm very, very amateur, which is funny because I'm not in the amateur leagues.