Quotes About Talent

The thing that's really difficult with it is that, in my job, I'm used to being criticised - especially with the small amount of talent that I have, I'm wide open for criticism.

If I could coach LeBron James for one year, I could make him an All-Pro wide receiver.

I got hands just like a wide receiver.

I think David Johnson is getting better, if that's possible. I think he's a really good player. I think he can do a lot of things. He's big. He's explosive. He can catch the ball out of the backfield. You can line him up out wide. I think he's a very dynamic player.

I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.

I'm not speaking, you know, egocentrically at all, but I do have a very wide range.

I'm really drawn to chameleons; I'm really drawn to people who can play a wide range of roles, who are really versatile, but are so in a way that's with ease.

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

There is a latent talent in everyone. I am nothing extraordinary just because I happen to be an actor. Everybody is extraordinary in his own way. One must identify one's own talent early on - one is not great merely when he gets recognized by others - and one doesn't become a nobody just because his talent is not widely known.

Although we were The Spice Girls of 1984 in Europe, My work has never been widely promoted in the U.S.

The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.

I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.

If a company want to cast its net widely, they will absolutely find qualified women. I don't really think there are any real barriers to that.

Countries which favour openness and the mobility of skilled talent secure the development of more diverse and culturally rich work environments, a higher level of innovation, as well as entrepreneurship and wider international networks.

Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.

Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.

I know kids who participated in reality shows and became a superstar over time without singing for films, because the opportunities are wider besides films.

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

You don't necessarily need Bollywood for wider acclaim.

What makes you a rock star is what are you able to do when you get behind that microphone, when you put that guitar in your hands, when you wield those drumsticks, and when you raise your hand in front of twenty thousand people: do they respond? That's being a rock star.

Man, it's hell to have a wife who thinks she can sing, and she can't.

My wife is a great dancer. But I don't dance.

My brother's friend worked at a TV station, so we went in; the producer of a show asked if I wouldn't mind taking some photos for his wife, who was a talent agent. Next thing I know, I'm enroute to the agency.

And I would like to be a sign-language interpreter if I wasn't a Wiggle.