Quotes About Talent

Every once in a while you must put in hard work in both ways. If you're born with skills, you must keep it going to build to be perfect. If you don't have it, you try to work to improve your shot. I think I do both. Some things I improve, some things I'm born with.

Every performer has a little gem, a little pearl they have done that nobody pays much attention to. And then one day, somebody does recognize it, which is so gratifying.

Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'

I want somebody to push me and grill me and extract a performance out of me which nobody expects.

That is one of the things I dream about for myself: to receive the 'golden ball' someday.

I never really thought I would be a Bollywood actress. However, I am a drama queen at home, so I guess Bollywood was bound to happen someday or the other.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I'd like to do a musical someday.

I'd love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn't brought up in that environment. My wife is better at woodworking, and most around-the-house skills, than I am.

I am an Alanis Morissette fan. I think that she has a fantastic voice, and I would love to sing with her someday.

I hope to someday be a great actress and a wonderful performer.

Joan Cusack is one of my favorite comedic actresses, and every part she plays is so different. She does the wackiest stuff and somehow it works. I like watching her a lot, and I think you can always go further and pull back. That's something I really have to work on.

I remember going to the audition for 'Corrie.' I wasn't an actor - what they're often looking for in these rooms is a character, not what's on the page. They want to see what you are going to bring. So somehow, I got the job on 'Corrie.' For the first time in a while, someone really believed in me.

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.

It's interesting because neither of my parents play instruments. They both love music, but neither of them are musicians. Somehow, I was drawn to it.

I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.

I just randomly fell into acting. I was so young at the time that I never really thought about acting... After I was into it, I had a feeling that I was going to end up doing this anyway somehow.

How am I overrated if I've never gone to the Pro Bowl? To be overrated, you have to be someplace you shouldn't be. I don't see that.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There's a difference between wanting to be famous and wanting to sing well.

The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.

99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.

Being able to inspire the body is an easy feat, but being able to inspire the soul as well is true talent.