Quotes About Talent

I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

If you ever see young artists, and they're not sounding good, they sound good. They're good singers. They wouldn't be where they are if they didn't sound good. It's their nerves. Any time you see your favorite artist, and he's or she's screwing up or not hitting those notes, it's not because she can't hit it or she can't sing; he or she is scared.

David Phelps has an uncanny ability to sound full and powerful on every part of his range and sing with so much emotion.

I love Katharine Hepburn. I love Liesl in 'The Sound of Music.' I love Julie Andrews. I love Audrey Hepburn.

I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.

I can make the best fart noises. I can make, like, 10 different sounds at different levels.

I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has.

I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.

If you're watching comedy movies, go back and check out the Marx Brothers in 'Duck Soup,' or Buster Keaton in 'The General,' or Laurel and Hardy or W.C. Fields or whatever - and see what pure talent really was, so that you can see where it came from, and then you can sort of gauge it from there.

Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

Chinese players are not as naturally skilled like South American or European players, like players who learned football when they were kids. They're not good.

Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.

I think I have the ability and can play a role in T20 cricket for South Africa.

I had been dancing in competitions in South Africa since the age of four, before going on to compete internationally.

I'm a street footballer and you still get street footballers from Africa, South Africa and really poor parts of Europe.

There is still a big gap between South America and Europe and Asia, and if we had more players playing in Europe, the gap would be smaller.

In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.

My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!

Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.

I think I came at the right moment at 'SNL.' There was a space for me, and I was good at it.

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

Del Piero is like Raul in Spain, he is the number one.