Quotes About Talent

I've never been innocent, but I don't think I'm a bad kid! I didn't get voted prom king. I was kind of the dancer, the performer, but I was always very athletic, too.

When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted 'Most Literary Boy.' I can assure you I was not voted 'Mostly Likely to Succeed.' I was voted 'Most Musical Boy.' And the music led to the poetry.

I was twice voted best left-back in the world.

Well look, I don't begrudge anybody in the voters and their views.

There wasn't much for me to do after school except the drama club, so when I kind of started doing drama club, it seemed to be something I could do.

Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

Lukaku sees football and lives for his game the way I think a top player should live for it.

The most important thing in IPL is to select the players. You don't get much time to develop a team so it's important to pick the right players.

My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.

Self-doubt kills talent.

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

I was a talented egomaniac with a self-esteem problem.

I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

I want to sell music. That's all I'm interested in selling.

I think, ever since I started doing well commercially, it's always been like, 'Oh, well, you're only where you are because of your dad, and it must be because of Mark Ronson and Greg Kurstin that you do well.' It's just everyone apart from me is responsible for the songs that I've written selling millions around the world.

My senior year in high school I knew was going to be drafted into the NBA.

Engineering was the safe and sensible choice, but music was what I loved and wanted to do.

We have to be really sensitive to making sure were not creating any stories that don't feel like they're ready to be told... We have to make sure we're getting the right story and the right content from the talent we work with.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

I find the idea that some kids go into acting because of their parents butt-clenchingly embarrassing. I've gone out of my way to prove myself as a separate being. I don't want to be seen as a subset of someone else.

Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor.

I guess I did make my name out of my drumming, and I have the big drum sets, and I'm doing all these crazy, odd-time signatures, so, yeah, I guess drumming was very important to what made me popular.

A fully fit Arjen is capable of settling a game by himself.