Quotes About Talent

If you play well, you can open doors.

I think people in theater are pretty open-minded and objective about the talent and what they can bring to the story they want to tell.

I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.

I was a wicket-keeper who opened the batting. Could I have made it? Hard to say. I probably wouldn't quite have been good enough. I might get back into it once I've finished with the football.

One of my first big shows, I opened up for Chris Brown; I was about 10 years old, and Chris Brown was just big; he still is one of my idols now.

I'm not going to lie; having acting greats like Kamal Haasan and Sarika as parents has, in a sense, opened doors.

No one in my family plays music. But since I was very little, I would go around the house singing and dancing. And when I was 8, my parents asked me to get up and sing something at a family meal. I had my eyes closed, singing - la la la la la - and when I opened them, the whole family was crying.

Teaching is just something that has come naturally to me. I didn't set out to be a teacher. I wanted to be a Beatle! But there were only four of them, so the job openings were really limited.

Madrid always opens its doors to great players.

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.

I would have loved to sing opera, but I have no voice. I used to sing along with records.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen.

I find the opera part in 'The Greatest Show on Earth' challenging.

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.

Opera is really fun.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

I decided I was going to be an opera star. I was about 12.

My degree was in opera.

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music.

I wrote my own pop songs and sang one of them when I went into a stupid beauty competition when I was 16. That was my public debut, and it made my mother even more determined that I should go into opera!

I sang opera for over four years when I was younger.

I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.