Quotes About Talent

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Although I don't come from a musical background, I was given piano lessons along with my sisters, but I wasn't what you would call a good student. I tended to write songs rather than do scales.

I was the good girl. The straight A student, on the honour roll, part of the choir... I played the cello badly. I did plays.

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.

'We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the Royal Academy and loved it.

Before I got into music, I studied sport and used to run for my county.

My favourite actor is Daniel Day Lewis. He's the finest actor in Hollywood. I've studied his performances.

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life.

I've studied classical singing, but not to a great extent.

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.

I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when. I never learned or studied the craft, formally. I grew up doing martial arts and playing piano. But, something inside of me always said that I was going to do this, as far back as I can remember.

I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. When I first got to high school and studied musical theater, I could sing. But I added certain things to my voice, and I realized after graduating high school that this is the kind of voice I had. It's not very nimble, but it's heavy.

I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to play that stuff.

I haven't actually studied acting at all.

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.

I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.

I studied my craft at the same place as Nicki Minaj.