Quotes About Talent

I always try to get to the point where I can do different things with my voice.

Just because you love to cook and you are good at in your home environment doesn't necessarily mean that you are cut out for competition. It is a different animal and requires you to approach cooking in a very different way.

With Riho, she doesn't speak English. Is that something that's going to keep us from having her on our roster? No! She's incredible. She's got incredible heart, and very, very talented in that ring in many different ways.

Some people are really surprised that I can sing different ways.

Even if I do get stereotyped, I would like to think that it is more of a challenge because if you are given one character and asked to play in 10 different ways, it says more about me as an actor.

Ali could only fight a couple of ways. I can fight five or six different ways.

I think it is always important to showcase your talent in different ways.

Neymar is a player at a whole different level, in a different world.

Comedy is a very difficult thing to do.

People with learning difficulties are often creative in different ways.

I'm very comfortable with the idea of there being late bloomers, and for me, of course, there's no difficulty at all in the way that I think of talent and achievement and so on.

You can be in films and have a lot of dignity.

Being a backup singer means being able to sing on a dime. Music is oozing out of their every pore.

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

Every actor is like, 'I could direct!'

I feel like a lot of directing is casting.

I don't think I'm great at acting. I think I'm great at directing.

Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance.

I don't know what directing actors is all about apart from just casting well and then shaping their performances a bit, you know.

There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old - and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction.

Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'