Quotes About Talent

My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.

Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I'd better learn how to use one. Then I found out I really liked it.

You can't compete with Sweets' sound and time feel. It's impossible.

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

I do cook whenever the time permits. But my daughter Isha is a much better cook than I am.

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.

Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

Regardless of Bobby's recent hate-filled rantings, which I abhor, he is nonetheless one of the greatest chessplayers of all time.

Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.