Quotes About Talent

I'm a very good bowler, which I discovered a few months ago.

I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.

I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

Everyone should be good at what they do.

Well, my mom was an Olympian, so we have some good genes on that front.

Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.

I never was a very good singer.

You just need an opportunity and then you yourself have to do a good job, and then you hope that people go, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about her.'

I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

Good people are not trained, they are found. If you are training too much, you may not have the right people.

Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.

People who can dance and sing are often very good at comedy.

I think that if you're a good enough actor you hope that eventually the material will find you.

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

My dad was the first one who said, 'You're going to end up behind the plate because you've got a very good arm and you're very smart when it comes to calling a game.'

I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good.

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

I just don't think I'm a very good singer.