Quotes About Talent

Show dancing stood very well on its own a long time ago with dancers like Bill Robinson and Marilyn Miller.

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

I DJ all the time, as much as I possibly can. I'll never stop. That's my security blanket, that's what I'm good at. I still consider myself a better DJ than a singer. I can DJ in my sleep.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way.

He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.

Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music.

Though I have started pursuing acting, there is no stopping for me from scoring music because music has always been my passion, though acting is my interest.

There is no magic formula for stopping Messi.

I must have 300 songs unreleased or unrecorded, lying around. I'm a production machine, it never stops.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

There is a healthy amount of self-doubt and criticism with most people that make music. You find your areas that are your best. Onstage, I am good. But talking to someone in the grocery store? Forget about it.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with Bob Crosby's band - but he had to give up show business when his father died. He had to come back to Montgomery and take over the furniture store.

I want the legacy of Chi Chi Devayne to be a damn good performer that came from nowhere and took the world by storm.

We have a lot of raw talent hidden in this country capable of taking on the world dance stage by storm.

I was gifted at birth with this talent, and I've tried to honor it all my life. And I did - through hell and storms and tsunamis and earthquakes. I've been through too much not to know that giving back is everything.

I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

Ron Howard is a great filmmaker and also a great storyteller in 60- and 30-minute shows, so why isn't he going to be a great storyteller in 10-minute pieces?