Quotes About Talent

I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.

I play the guitar, and I juggle.

Jimmer Fredette

I'm an elite, recreational juggler.

I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.

I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don't use a baton.

I don't have any juggling or fire-eating skills.

You see these juicy roles, and 9 times out of 10, they'll go to a much more established actor. It's the nature of the business.

Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything.

I'm the guy coming from Juilliard.

I did a lot of engineering things, like taking apart my brother's model car when I was 10. I also played the piano for about 10 years. I auditioned for Juilliard but didn't get in.

Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus - I put Issa Rae in that category of comic genius.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is like a hero, to have played different comedic roles. She gets sexier, funnier, and better with time.

In my pantheon of comedy idols there's maybe six people: Lisa Kudrow, Conan O'Brian, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Martin Short. Lisa is at the top.

My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.

I've always had a thing about Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, and Imelda Staunton. I'm hoping to follow in their footsteps.

Julius Eastman is the kind of American genius not enough people know about.

From the moment of my birth on 23 July 1976, I became involved f in an educational research project. Even before I came into the world, my parents had already decided: I would be a chess champion.

I can jump really high, yeah. I'm proud of that. I'll take it.

As I grew into my body, high jump chose me.

I'm able to run and jump and do all the things I can do. I'm blessed.

Maybe it's innate: I have a body built to jump.

I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and I honestly started performing for my family when I was around three. I would jump up on the coffee table and I would get in the closet and ask that they introduce me to come out, and from that point on, my mother stuck me in dance class and children's theater.

I've never been the type that's been highly athletically talented or can jump that high. I'm a guy who's 6-2.