Quotes About Talent

Gary Oldman is my TV hero. The incredible thing about Gary Oldman is his versatility.

Frank Sinatra was a great singer, but my favourite is Sammy Davis Jr. He had incredible versatility in his voice, often doing impressions of people. It's always going to be classic, and you'll never get bored listening.

I am not a comedian, I am an actor, and what makes an actor brilliant is his versatility.

Actors on stage, you can go from playing a myriad of roles, from Shakespeare to a Eugene O'Neil drama, and it's the norm. I came up in a world where you're supposed to be able to do three things very well. Act, sing, dance, paint, do something. The emphasis was on versatility.

I always tried to pride myself on my versatility - I can't just be the 'iSpy' guy.

As an actor, you strive to show versatility.

For me, Ramos is a full-back, but he has the versatility that allows him to play in different positions without no problems.

For me, the focus will always be to show my versatility. And sometimes you need to spoon-feed people to show them what you are capable of.

Thankfully, TV has given me another platform to showcase my versatility.

Versatility, quality, good passing... I think all that catches coaches' eyes.

Big Sean could get on a verse with anybody and probably annihilate them.

I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.

There is an incompatibility between being glamorous, young and a woman and using my brain. The official version is there is no discrimination, and talent dominates, but that is not the case.

I'll tell you what I really loved: the version of 'Somebody to Love' that was in 'Happy Feet.' That was fantastic.

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

If you have talent and energy, you're king. If you have only energy and no talent, you're still a prince. But if you have talent and no energy, you're a pauper.

Proust said, we all end up doing the thing we're second best at.

my greatest asset, and making sure I never take it for

The English are the biggest snobs on earth, and most of the time without reason. The lesser the talent, the bigger the snob, in my experience. It's the only way the so

We stood silent. After a moment I said, Real Geniuses never think they're geniuses. Who says? Me. Because why? Because genius is nine-tenths perspiration. Haven't you ever heard that? As soon as you think you're a genius, you slack off. You think everything you do is so great and everything.

When an organization starts hemorrhaging talent, CEOs and boards of directors want to know why. If the boss gets blamed for the brain drain and is ultimately removed, it means relief for the employees still there and ex post facto vengeance for the former ones.

It never fails to amaze me how many beautiful young women with so much promise and talent wind

I'm not Beethoven!