Quotes About Talent

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.

Every actor thinks he's underused - unless he's a movie star.

Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star.

I saw Cate Blanchett in 'Big and Small,' and it was mind-blowing. The fact that she can do theatre and is also a huge movie star is really exciting.

In Europe, a great dancer might be on the same level as a movie star. In America, not so.

Katherine Heigl was a movie star. I thought she was going to be one, and it was fun to watch this young actress getting better every day.

I just don't think of myself as a movie star - I'm an actress.

I am an actress. I am not a movie star.

I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.

I don't consider myself - and I hope I'm never going to be - a 'movie star.' I'd like to be called an actor.

You can get good performances in quite sizable roles from people who have never been in front of a camera, people who maybe have never been in front of a movie theater.

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.

If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.

Mozart is my first strength.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.

I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.

Richard Landis is a modern-day Mozart, almost.

I'm a baker. I'm really good at muffins. I'm really good at banana bread. I'm really good at making cookies. I'm really good at making biscuits - all the really bad stuff.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.