Quotes About Talent

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

You know later in life I was inspired to sing and that would've been Aretha, Chaka Khan, Mariah - the typical divas were the inspiration. I've always enjoyed all those singers.

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.' That changed my life forever!

Life is too short to play bad music

As crazy as it sounds, I really think that God just put the reggae thing in me. I can point to a few things in my life that pushed me in that direction.

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.

It's hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it's all I have ever done since I was 11 years old.

Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.

If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs.

Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

I been doing music my whole life.

I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music.

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

With what has occurred in my life, the baseball field is where I feel most comfortable. That's what I feel I was born to do and it's what I do best.

The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.