Quotes About Talent

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.

I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.

I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.

I have worked with some very great directors.

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.

I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie.

I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.

Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

Me, Jesy and Jade were all told at our first audition that they could see us in a girl group. All of us were a little bit disappointed because they thought we weren't good enough on our own.

I have discipline; I look after my voice.

I truly believe the discipline I have honed as a dancer will bring me more opportunities as an actor.

I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.

I had to go off by myself to try and discover what my talent really was.

Discover your passion and do it to the best of your ability.

I never really excelled in any particular subject, but I was just alright at all of them. I never really knew what I wanted to do until I discovered drama.

I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.

My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.

I did not develop my ear. I discovered I had an ear, and it was an accident.

I discovered early on that I was more of a strummer than a picker.