Quotes About Talent

I was raised on Broadway because of my dad, but I never thought I had what it took to make it there, although I always wanted to.

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

I really wanted to be a Broadway kid.

I should be on Broadway. You have to sing, you have to dance, you have to speak well, and I'm good at all of those!

I've done a couple of Broadway shows and sang before I did any acting.

There's not a lot of ego in the Broadway community. Everyone's out to do well.

No one told me that if you can't sing, you probably won't be on Broadway. No one told me that!

Go for broke with what you believe and what you think is funny and what you're good at.

I love the Marx Brothers.

The Coen brothers are amazing; they're special.

I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.

Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.

I present, I direct, I act - I do all these things and I live inside this wonderful bubble called entertainment.

I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.

Look at my nine-year career: I've always been close to a point a minute. I've always been a walking bucket.

I'm a bucket.

I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.

In the fourth-grade talent show, my buddies and I dressed up like the California Raisins - they were big then! - and lip-synched.

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.

If I wasn't doing music, I might have been a builder.

I always wanted to be an actor and wanted to sing and dance, I wanted to do lots of things, but at school I got ridiculed for it and bullied because of it.

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.

I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.