Quotes About Talent

I think music has always been what I always wanted to do, but I didn't know how or when I was going to get discovered.

A young comic, if he's any good, can easily get on 'Carson' or 'Griffin' or 'Dinah Shore,' because they want to say the same thing, that they discovered the new talent.

It's important for us to certainly cast some Christian actors who can speak to our audience when we market the films, but obviously we don't discriminate. So our crew and our cast, the beliefs don't really matter.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

I find it embarrassing and disgusting to ask to do a part and be told I'm too pretty. How can I answer that?

There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

I know people look at the Disney Channel as... a specific thing. But all the actors from 'Austin and Ally' - honestly, they're really good.

I just want to display my skills to the world because I can do it all.

You might be an elite-level athlete in the room, but if no one gets to see you display your craft it doesn't matter.

I was certainly no Maradona. I was a very fast player. When I saw a space, I used it. When I went past somebody, he didn't catch up with me again. I was a player who came with a run-up. What Maradona could see in a small space, I saw over long distances.

I always enjoyed singing but I was never convinced that I had a big voice like that, that was distinctive, I just thought I can sing in the choir.

I'm looking for voices that are distinctive. That's the most important thing to me. I mean, obviously they have to be able to sing.

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

What I'm good at is making sure we have the best resources, the best talent, the best marketing, and the best access to distribution.

I'm a chanteuse and a diva, and I'm an actress who likes a script.

I have never felt like a diva!

I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.

I've been getting diverse roles.

I knew I am not star material. I cannot sing or dance, nor am I good for action. I can only perform for which strong, diverse roles are needed.

Vijayalakshmi is one artiste whom I admire. There is something divine about her singing.

What I have a problem with is money and name at the expense of talent and culture.

I went to art school for four years to learn a very expensive lesson - that there are many other artists who are way better than me.

£25million or £30m or £20m - whether you are expensive or not, players are just players.

There can be very cheap players that play very well, and maybe, expensive players, they don't do so well.