Quotes About Talent

My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.

My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over I'd automatically do impressions of them as soon as they left; it was my mom's favorite thing.

I just always wanted to be a singer. My mom said I was even singing in my cot!

My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.

An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

My mom is a sculptress.

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

My parents are the people that led me here. My mom helped me learn to sing and she travels with me.

My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.

Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.

I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about.

I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.

I got it all, I got the money, I got the looks, I got the brainpower

I didn't look up and say, "Oh, man, if I learn how to play a guitar I could make not much money, but I'd make a decent living like Eric Clapton or somebody." There wasn't nothing like that out there.

Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living doing that?' He said 'Yes, this my livelihood.'