Quotes About Talent

I knew I was good at sports, and I knew I loved acting and performing, so I really dove into that, and school always became secondary.

If I watch a basketball game, I don't really care if a guy hit a three-pointer with three seconds left. I mean, I can like that. But I'm more interested in who drafted him and what makes him special.

Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I've always wanted to be a rock star.

The entertainment industry isn't secure.

When you want to form a band, there's always an overwhelming lack of drummers.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.

We kind of owe everything to 'Byker Grove.' It's where we learnt to do what we do.

I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.

The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'

Owners and chairmen prefer to buy in talent as investments against relegation at one end of the table, or to attain the holy grail of European football at the top end.

I did gigs alongside Oxford students and I thought being working class I'd feel inferior. But the thing is you don't feel inferior if you're getting more laughs than the other bloke on the bill.

Creativity and self-destruction sometimes come in the same package.

Clearly, NXT has been blessed with amazing, one-of-a-kind athletes. Our talent have great figures, they're charismatic and beautiful in their own way. However, I am the total package.

Genius doesn't always come in neat packages.

A lot of people who want to be serious artists probably don't want to go for a talent show, but it is a great launching pad.

I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don't think he ever took lessons; he was piecing it together himself. But he has great rhythm. And rhythm, to me, you can use it to your advantage if you're not all over the fretboard.

All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice.

I'd been auditioning for parts for years. I never got any better at it. I'm crap at auditions. I know there are people who can walk into those rooms and make those lines sing on the page and get the job immediately. I wasn't one of them. I'm still not one of them.

I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that, and the words that are on the page, depending on how it's written, can really help your character develop.

Music is a beauty pageant. When I go put myself out there, I'm going to compete.

Miss America is a scholarship pageant, and they actually define themselves as a talent pageant.

Dybala is three pages ahead of the rest in the football manual.

It is amazing how quickly a true talent can announce itself. In the case of Myla Goldberg, it is not even a matter of pages, but of sentences.