Quotes About Talent

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it

One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.

Redefine the sport in terms of your expertise, in terms of your talent, in terms of your strength, in terms of your flair. Make it interesting. Make it something that people want to watch.

Bella [Hadid] is also very naturally gifted in beauty so she can also go whenever she wants to go to the gym.

I think the legacy that I'll leave is just a great entertainer, and that's what I want to be remembered as, a great entertainer.

When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.

There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people.

If I weren't acting, I think I'd want to be a professional hockey player.

I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just want to act.

In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there.

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.

One problem when you get energy and want to go with it is that with so large a cast of talented people, you have to wait three or four shows for some 'meat.'

I used to want to be a singer and a musician for years, from 6 years old to today. I'm not really good, but in time I could be. I'm more of a singer than anything.

Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.

At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don't care about what vocal changes it went through. You can't screw up a great song and a great singer.

When I was a kid I used to want to be a Beethoven or something. That was my dream.

Iniesta - he is the Zinedine Zidane of the team, because he can do whatever you want him to with the ball.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.