Quotes About Talent

You can teach defensive wizardry, but you need the talent to go with it. You have to be born with that natural defensive radar.

The first time Brie Larson was really on our radar as somebody who we wanted to work with was 'Short Term 12.'

Kids will never go under the radar any more because there are so many scouts at grassroots level. Also, if you come out of a professional academy, it's a very lonely place for a child and some kids don't bounce back from it.

I play my best stuff when I am a little under the radar.

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'

I myself am a huge Radiohead fan.

Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.

I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can't really escape it.

I am good at raising money.

We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do.

I think Ralph Fiennes has had a really wonderful career; there's something sort of classic about him. He does a bunch of different projects, but he approaches the work from a very sort of artful way.

My favorite album is 'Ram' by Paul and Linda McCartney.

Ram Sampath is a genius.

I ran track, and I was really good at it. I was really fast.

I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

One of my random skills is I have a very strong memory for dialogue and moments, and I don't know why.

Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.

I love 'Macho Man' Randy Savage, Shawn Michaels and Eddie Guerrero.

I used to play around and sing Randy Travis for my dad. I'd always be able to just mimic things.