Quotes About Talent

Miss Goodblatt would call on me to read. She said I had a talent. So on a whim, I auditioned for the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan.

I just can't whip off a likeness of somebody.

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

My mom has a rare talent for being able to open up the refrigerator, and with the peas, the leftover eggs, the cream, the spinach, the cheese, and a little rice, she can just whip up incredible risotto.

I'm not sure if I can whip, but I can nae nae with the best of them.

I cannot sit back and think that I am the best. I have to prove again and again that I am the most original music director around, even if I'm everyone's favorite whipping boy.

I would hope it's better, but I'm actually acknowledging now that I want to explore all these levels from a whisper to a scream with this gift I've been given.

I can dance, act, beatbox and whistle very well.

I went to Irish dance when I was four. I was playing the tin whistle when I was five. So I think certain things are bred into you.

I may be a character artiste but I want the audiences to clap and whistle for me as well.

I can't whistle. My husband makes fun of me for that.

I can whistle really loudly. You know the two-fingered whistle? That. People are usually really surprised that I can do it.

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different.

If I was a white rapper, the bar for me would be Eminem. Of course his white skin helped him excel to heights that a lot of other rappers couldn't, but he still was talented. People gravitated towards him because of his skills. He stood the test of time.

If technology is designed mostly by white males, who make up roughly half our population, we're missing out on the innovation, solutions, and creativity that a broader pool of talent can bring to the table.

Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

Music, in its true essence, has got no language. You don't listen to anybody because he is black or white or because he belongs to a particular geographical region. You listen to him because you like what he does.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

Football is football, and there are some pretty good players that have come out of the FCS and did well against bigger competition.

My parents were artists, so my salvation was to make pretty things - and ultimately delicious things at the same time.

The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.

You never want to be the one who everyone is going to bust jokes on. The only way to prevent that is to be good at something.