Quotes About Talent

We performers sacrifice so much for your entertainment.

I have always had a performers instinct since I was a child.

Artists like Mehmood, Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan are performers... they are born in centuries.

Only good performers get to work with me.

We have some of the best in-ring performers in the world, but they are also some of the best characters.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I couldn't believe I was being paid for that.

I couldn't see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn't like school if I'm being honest. I would have settled for performing in any capacity.

Performing is my passion.

Performing has always been instinctive to me. I remember people saying, 'he doesn't know if he's a chef or an entertainer.' But what's wrong with being both? It's like saying you can't run the 100 and the 200 metres.

My background was in performing originally.

I want to be like Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth or Anne Hathaway and do everything that has to do with performing.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

I was performing from the age of three.

I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, 'Okay, I'll try it.'

Literally since I could walk... I was performing.

I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.

When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.