Quotes About Talent

I realised you could become fat and bald as a director and still remain employable.

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a child that there were people who played it so much better.

I first realised I was good at football when I started getting scouted by United, Liverpool, Everton; clubs like that had a lot of interest at an early age, and you kind of know then you're on the right path. I was about six years old and had to sign a contract at nine.

The first time I played in front of a live audience, I realised I wanted to be a musician. I was about four years old and had always liked music.

The women's game has grown, but when I was playing at Arsenal, I don't think people realised how good we actually were. I think there's just a perception that we just play football, but we're not very good, and it was a challenge for us to try and prove those type of people wrong.

I went to drama school but soon realised I was terrible at acting, so I ditched drama school for art school.

My first ambition was musical theatre, but I realised quite early on that I wouldn't make the grade.

Over time I realised that the most important thing is not the system but the players you have. Then you make a system for them.

After my first play, I realised that comedy was my forte - rather than being a dukhi heroine, I would rather do comedy.

I was doing musical theatre 'til I was, like, 17, and then I started realising I could use my voice in a more, like, current way.

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

I've always had a passion for acting, without really realising that that's what I should be doing.

I remember singing as a chorister in Peterborough Cathedral, having won a music scholarship to go to school there, and realising for the first time in my life what true excellence was.

I never thought I'd be on T.V. For me as a kid in Liverpool, it was a more realistic option to be a singer.

With realistic and deglamourised roles and live sound, the charisma of a star is not enough. Can you be many different people?

Mohan Lal is my favorite actor, so if I am saying that Salman has performed better, you can believe how much he has done. Salman is better looking, so that's his plus point. Lal is the more realistic actor, but Salman is a better dancer. So there are things you can't compare. Both are good in their own way.

I'm realistic. I know there are players out there who are more talented than me.

If we are realistic and forget team loyalties, you cannot compare Messi with any other player.

There are many good-looking actors.

I'd rather be called a good actor than be labelled a good-looking guy. I have been working towards it all along, and I hope to be able to go far ahead, because that's my foremost goal.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

Some people are just really goofy kind of guitar acts, and they go out and do these colleges and start making a fortune pretty early on. And other people - I know guys who are great comics, who've done the Letterman show many times, who still barely pay their bills.

As with Google, Facebook was a place that just concentrated a lot of top talent. It's just sort of natural that those people would go on and continue to be successful.

Eric Gordon is a great scorer.