Quotes About Talent

My first role was in the George Gershwin musical 'Crazy for You' at the Orlando Repertory Theatre when I was 11 - I grew up in Florida - and I wasn't old enough to be in it, but they let me anyway. I was just this little shrimp in a leotard.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

The Oscar is not a curse. The real curse is that once you have an Oscar they think you can do anything.

There are actors who have never gotten an Oscar and have done amazing work.

I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due - she won two Oscars, but the last was in 1938, and that was really before all the great work that she did.

I ain't gonna win no Oscars.

I love Jessica Chastain. I love her; she's amazing, and she's such a good actress, and she's been nominated for Oscars, and she's just a big role model to me. I love her.

You don't do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn't win them. They were given to me. All I did was 2 films. People always say the analogy is Olympic gold medals.

People say an Oscar validates your career. No, it doesn't. There's more good actors without Oscars than there are with Oscars.

It's great to be able to bring the best players from other countries and that they want to play in our league.

We have a lot of great stars and so many different things, some of the other countries don't have that. So when they get somebody, they support them to the death. America, I kind of think we take it for granted sometimes.

Music. It has always showed me that I could do what the other kids couldn't do. So I will keep playing and singing and entertaining, as long as the good Lord lets me. That is my life.

I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it's kind of obvious when you're learning things faster than other kids.

Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.

When all the other kids were playing sports after school, I wanted to sing and dance and act.

I just used to go to the same auditions with all these other kids I went to school with. I didn't feel like I was really good at acting. I didn't feel like I was a really talented person that needed to be doing this.

I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.

I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example.

David Longstreth is one of the great guitar heroes of our generation.

Nobody does our music better than us.

Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it?

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