Quotes About Talent

Aaron Gordon, obviously, is a great runner.

You see kids leave drama school who are drop-dead gorgeous and they just go stratospheric instant'aneously.

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.

The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.

Emmys are gorgeous and fun, but with or without them, there is beautiful work out there.

I can do R&B, pop, gospel... whatever genre of music that's out.

All I gotta do is my job, do what it is that I bring to the table - that fire - and put the thump on these songs, and everything's gonna work from there.

Both my kids like Adele, and I gotta say, the girl can sing.

I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

I've gotten jobs that I think I've done the worst audition I ever did, and I got the job. I've done the best audition I've ever done in my entire life, and I haven't gotten the job.

I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace.

It is not easy for a dancer to be accepted as an actor. But I worked my way up through hard work and by God's grace.

By the grace of God, I'm the only person in my family with any musical ability.

When you have a lot of talent, you don't necessarily have to be gracious and consider everyone.

We are all musicians, and we're not really good musicians. But we have this gracious gift that has been bestowed on us, and we don't want to disappoint. So I guess our biggest fear would be, just giving up.

I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.

I started playing drums in the 4th grade.

Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can do with it.' I liked to draw, but what could I do with it? Maybe I could be an art dealer - nah, can't see myself doing that. Maybe I could do commercial arts?

I wanted to be an actor as a kid. My teacher in second grade had called a talent agency and had them call my house. My mom was so mad.

By 11th grade, I was in show business as a professional.

My first audition ever was for 'Bye Bye Birdie' in fifth grade.