Quotes About Talent

Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.

[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that.

He is improving all the time. He is only 21 and who knows what he is capable of. (on Cristiano Ronaldo)

You're not actually being a good actor all the time. But people refer to me as a good actor because they read it someplace, not because they've made up their own mind. So I'm very lucky!

I don't know why you're making the poor girl play with you," Peter said. "You're going to completely slaughter her." "Well, I am the greatest Guitar Hero player of all time," Jack said.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.

I'm open to different parts. I would love to do something where I can sing and act at the same time.

If you give a bad player time, he can play. If you give a good player time, he can kill you.

When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.

I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.

By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.

Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.

I think there's an enormous lot of talent around, and somewhere amongst these I'm sure that something will emerge, given time.

I'm really proud of the fact that anywhere, at any time, I can make music. A lot of people can't do that.

Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.

I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.

Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.