Quotes About Talent

I can never understand how a solo could ever be 'uncool.' Play something good, and it won't be uncool, you know?

I think it's really important to be humble for the music because there is always someone better than you, there is always something new for you to learn for music and you can't be the best in the world. It makes you work very hard.

I want to make sure that I sign dope artists, old and new, just to make sure that we come up with something new and creative.

I think I have something special. I am confident that I am going to be an artist.

When I was 10 or 11 people started saying there was something special about my voice. But when I was 15 or 16 is when I really thought my hobby could become my career.

The reason why people are huge stars is nothing to do with acting. It's the magic. Charisma is a word that's used too often; it's something special, and it's what makes stars. It's luck, and basically, it's genes.

Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.

You put two fiery all-stars on the same team, something special has to happen.

I would like to have an assortment of words, but what can I say about Leo? He is breaking all the records, and those he will still beat. He makes the public always expect something special from him, and he delivers it.

England fans should be pretty happy to have Jofra Archer in their Test team - because he is something special.

He just has the knack, the ability, to do something special and crucial. This is Messi.

Well, each artist has something special about them. And I try to find whats best in them and find a song that works with it.

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

Somewhat naively, I entered the BBC's 'New Talent Competition,' believing it was for people who had never tried comedy before. I remember sitting in the dressing room before the show and hearing the other acts - who all knew one another - talking to Rhod Gilbert about how he must be about ready to go 'full-time' as a comic.

There is a somewhat different struggle when one comes from a film family. If you don't work hard enough or are not talented, you won't make it.

If you work hard and you're somewhat talented, you'll be successful in this league.

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.

There's a new Mozart, a new Miles Davis, a new Misty Copeland, a new Matisse potentially languishing in a math class somewhere. If we fail to introduce them to art, we fail humanity.

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have the core classical training, which I did for many, many years, but also be interested in the pop side of things. You can fit in somewhere in the middle. I feel I do that really well.

Put on a camera and put on some whatever, and you're an actor. Put me in a cage, I'm a fighter. Put me somewhere else - I'm in an ocean, I'm a surfer. I don't know what I am, I just do it all. And I want to be good at everything.

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.