Quotes About Talent

I don't quite think I'm big enough to deserve an orchestra.

I'm not Meryl Streep. My God - she's the greatest actor that ever lived. It's sad that ordinary actors like me are compared to her.

I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters.

I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful!

Sometimes you need a special player to do something out of the ordinary.

I think you find amongst ordinary people there are a lot of people that are really talented.

I'm basically a keyboard player, so if it's got a keyboard on it, I'll give it a shot. I played a lot of organ in the early days. I can make a few chords on guitar, but that's about it.

I would sit at the organ and just start making up things by myself - I was maybe 7 years old, which was too young to even know how to notate music. So I never wrote anything down, but when I'd make things up, I'd memorize them.

It was a sort of organic thing. I never went, 'I must be an actress.' I thought, 'I think I could do this. I think I could be good at this.' I would just get sort of hungry when I read something I thought I can do well, whether it was in books or in scripts or if I saw a certain movie. It sort of happened quite naturally.

The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.

I'm like one of those dudes who organically have talent.

I came to singing organically.

There's no shortage of fighting talent in the UFC; that's what makes it such a great organisation, and that's why I'm so proud to be a part of it.

They couldn't sign me until after I graduated, but right after graduation day, I had nine different organizations there wanting to sign me.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.

A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

Original music is always appreciated.

There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality.

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

I guess I originally got the bug for performing when I was in choirs and school stuff and all that. I don't know when. I guess I decided to do it because a lot of people said I was good, and I liked the attention.

Originally, nobody knew John Cena rapped. It was just something he did in the car. I told Bruce Prichard, and that's how the whole 'Thugonomics' run began.