Quotes About Talent

I think I can play with three defenders. I'm capable of doing it.

I'm a really good shooter, three-point shooter. I'm good at defense. Dribbling, not so much.

I couldn't shoot and I couldn't score in high school. All I could do is dunk and play defense.

People see me scoring now, but I got drafted because of my defense.

I don't get so much credit for my defense.

At 21, I'm too young to be considered just a defensive outfielder.

I have game-changing defensive abilities.

Sometimes I look at myself and ask, 'What is my best position?' But I think it's a defensive midfielder; that's the best one.

Defensive player of the year is MVP in my book.

Money doesn't always define basketball.

I admire actors such as Laura Linney, Cate Blanchett and Andrea Riseborough, who take risks and fight to not be defined by their gender.

I don't know how you work on concentration. You are either born with it or you're not. And I was definitely not born with it.

My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.

Ultimately, there is no definition for smartness. It's just the ability to do what you want to do really well.

I've been acting since I was a kid, so I just feel confident in the fact that I can do it to some degree. I've never thought I was amazing; I've just thought, 'I know this, I can do it.'

Many foreign students take their California degrees back to their home countries. They become entrepreneurs that develop products that they sell back to us.

If you are known to do something well, people want to see you do that. But what you choose to do is up to you. After 'Delhi Belly,' I got some 40 scripts - some on the same lines as 'Delhi Belly.' So, I guess people only get stereotyped if they want to.

I read my father's books growing up. I thought then and I still think now that his writing is wonderful. It delights and infuriates me in equal measure that he's still that good.

Any passionate actor, if he is spoon-fed, will deliver.

I know what I can do and what I can deliver and there's not many people who can do what I can do.

When I bagged 'Arundathi,' I don't think I knew how to act. It was because of director Shyamprasad Reddy that I delivered that performance.

I am probably the only composer in South India who has delivered many superhit songs but was not considered a success.

I thought I was good before I had any right to. But I think you got to feel that way. You got to think that. I wasn't delusional. I knew I had talent.

I didn't know how to act, but I was open to learning. I was not delusional that looks would help me sail through.