Quotes About Talent

When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was one of the founders of the company, and she told my mom that there were these auditions for 'The King and I,' and that they needed kids. I auditioned, got in and the love affair started from there and just kept going.

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

During the fourth year of college, I heard about auditions for a musical for which I got chosen. There after, I continued acting in plays and improved.

One of the things I've learned from animation is that some guys are really good at writing, some guys are really good at design, some guys are really good at directing. It's almost like working in a band - not everybody plays every instrument.

I am just a guy who plays drums.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything.

I did plays in grade school.

I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.

There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

As a child, all I knew was that people kept asking me to sing, and because I liked to please, I would sing. It wasn't until my dad told me that my singing made him happy that I began to think my voice might be good.

I just focus on trying to please and entertain those who have faith in my talent.

Sometimes, you have to sacrifice your talent to please the public.

I've come to Milan because I think I can play; otherwise, I wouldn't have come here. I'm pleased they were interested in me.

I can sing, but I don't know how pleasing it is to the ear, you know.

I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable - for me - talent, which is being able to act.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.

Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.

There are plenty of good drama schools and academies helping children and young people to learn to sing, dance, and act.

Nobody can tell me that if players are good enough, they will come through. That is not true. There are plenty of players who are good enough.

There are plenty of players who have a lot of talent. It's all about getting the best out of yourself and you'll have to work very hard to achieve that.

If you're good at your job, you're good at your job regardless of being male, female, whatever. Either you're a good director or you're not, and there are plenty of bad male directors.