Quotes About Talent

I started my journey in music at the age of six.

As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.

I've never played instruments. I've always been a singer or a writer, for that matter. But I started playing in bands when I was sixteen years old.

Obviously, the Sixties was a time when everyone wanted to experiment, and then everything became very formulated and corporate, so artists tended to get pushed into a kind of pattern. Now, I think that has continued with the emergence of televised talent shows like 'X Factor.'

In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it.

That's the beautiful thing about baseball. You can be any size and be successful.

My size is an asset to me. People write roles for me. If I was just another blond-haired, brown-eyed, 18-year-old actor, I'd be left unrecognized. People remember me.

I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.

I am not one to equate dress size and artistic performance.

When I know I'm not doing any auditions, I go to the skate park on my scooter or my bike.

When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.

When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding.

I would love nothing more than to become a professional ice skater, but I would rather do it privately.

A coach told my mum I had talent and I would make a very good skater.

I was a really good ice hockey player when I was a kid. Now in the aftermath I think I wasn't maybe big enough, and I couldn't have put on enough muscle to actually be able to play with the better guys, but I was a really good skater.

My oldest brother was two years older than me, and a really awesome skater.

What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most.

I love figure skating. It's what I'm good at.

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

Some skaters, they live for skating, and they are home-schooled. I'm very lucky my parents let me go to school and have a normal life.

I have so much to give to skating in Canada.

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.