Quotes About Talent

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

Every movie you do, you find something in yourself that you probably didn't know that you had, and a director will find something in you that you can nurture and find and bring for the next one.

My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.

That is part of the problem, that lack of belief in yourself because you don't see success around you. I guess that breeds defeatism, so yes there does need to be resources out there and support that will nurture talent that I believe is there, and passion that I know is there.

God gives you talent to nurture. God gives you talent to be something. Some people realize it and some people don't.

There are so many instances where kids who have talent and intellect have to navigate the world of low expectations and resources. We have to nurture those gifts more.

Conte is correct - talent needs to be nurtured on a daily basis with hard work.

I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts.

When I talk about the early years in Oakland, I don't want to take anything away from who that player was, because that player was still a heck of a player, that player was just young. I played off the field the same way that I played on the field.

Oakland kids are always the best.

The Ballon d'Or is one of my objectives, but it will be complicated so long as Ronaldo and Messi are around.

Women should be looked at as much more than objects of glamour. We have a lot more to offer.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

I was kind of an obnoxious kid. I would imitate Celine Dion. I would jump around and belt to the rafters and do the accent and everything.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

Making people laugh was the only thing I ever truly excelled at. But at home, I was so quiet with my family, which taught me to be really observant.

I am observing that to become an actor, people say, they want to join gym. Why join a gym? Why don't you join an institute where they teach you how to act?

All the Bollywood choreographers are so talented and inspiring. I am learning a lot just by observing their work.

I love Amy Winehouse. I'm obsessed with her, I think she's brilliant. And Ed Sheeran is just my all-time fave.

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

I really fell in love with dance. By the time I was seven, I had dance class six times a week. I was obsessed.

I'm obsessed with Bruno Mars' records. I'd give my right leg to be able to sing like that dude.