Quotes About Talent

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

I joined a campus competition, as I felt I could do comedy, and I won. Then I started doing standup gigs in 2009 while completing my law degree, but I never told my parents. They only discovered a few years later.

I'm a big fan of Louis CK - I think he's a master of standup.

I did a gig as a standup when I was eight years old. I went on holiday with my family to this holiday camp and they had a talent competition and I entered as a standup.

I was doing the work I was capable of doing with my own native talent, but when I looked at actors like Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean, Kim Stanley, and Geraldine Page, I knew that they knew something that I didn't know. I wanted to find out what that was.

I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.

I started acting in junior high. I was in 'Guys and Dolls.' I was Stanley Kowalski. In my head, before coming to Hollywood, I thought, 'I can play anything.'

I love Stanley Clark. I love George Duke and Stanley Clark.

Stanley Johnson's going to be a great player in this league.

You can't buy being a rock star.

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

In the juniors, you are kind of a star, but just because you are a good junior doesn't mean you will be a good pro.

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.

You can either be a movie star or an actor. I'm an actor.

When you come from a star family in the South, you're expected to be really good in dance and fights. It's really important that you open up as an actor in front of the camera.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can.

If you know the filmmaker is good and the leading actor is a movie star like Diane Lane, you know you're part of something great.