Quotes About Talent

Bejoy Nambiar had offered me 'Shaitaan' some years ago. But I wasn't confident about my Hindi.

I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

If I get good Bollywood offers, I would love to act.

At the end of the day, it is good music that matters to me, so I'm open to offers.

I got good offers from Bollywood because I can speak Hindi very well.

I had more offers in football than baseball.

They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

I can record auditions from my office in my home.

At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.

As an actor, when you are called upon to do a job, you are oftentimes convinced you can't do it. You say to yourself 'I don't have the talent for this; they are going to figure out I'm a fraud.' And then you watch how the others do it, and fake your confidence.

I actually love actresses who look like they feel really natural. I like Patricia Clarkson, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand. Those are actresses where the second they show up on screen you're like, oh my gosh, this movie just got so much better.

Oh, I've been ridiculously lucky to work for, I'd say, five of the greatest directors of all time... and a lot of other great people, too.

You hope that some day a part will come along and you can do your stuff and people will go, 'oh that's good.' I just got very lucky.

I want people to hear me and say, 'Oh my God, what a voice.'

I grew up watching Dr. J, and I was like, 'Oh my God, this guy is the greatest basketball player I ever saw.'

There was a day when doing TV was like, oh my God, the end of your career. Now it's just like, we all want to do TV; we all want to do great TV.

When I was very small, I was obsessed with 'Sybil' and Sally Field's performance in 'Sybil.' I was like, 'Oh, my God, I want to do that!'

I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'

Oh, yeah - I could see myself as a catch and shooter, come off curls and shooting. I really feel good about shooting the ball.

I wanted to act when I was young. When I was 12, I asked the head of English at my school, 'Can I audition?' and he said, 'What would we want you for?' And I remember going, 'Oh yeah. Why would they want me?'

I always go for the craft first because, to me, that's like an oil well - you either hit the oil or you don't.

Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'.

OK, I've made a preposterous amount of money. But I was born with the attributes needed to do it.