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Quotes About Skill

I do rap and speak in Malayalam but only to save my life as my vocabulary in the language is not as good as it is in Hindi.
~ Raftaar
I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive Scrabble for a year. But having a big vocabulary and being good at Scrabble are not the same thing.
~ Stephen Amell
I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
~ B. D. Wong
I never took any vocal training.
~ Marvin Hamlisch
I like Brandy a lot. She's a vocal prodigy.
~ India Arie
I think I've learned a lot on the vocal side of things.
~ Richard Ashcroft
I want to grow as a vocalist, and I want to really kill every single show and just become better.
~ Kim Petras
Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory for Music in Boston.
~ Bernice King
It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.
~ Lisa Hannigan
Maybe I was just born with a little bit of vocals or natural talent, but I feel like I taught myself.
~ Bryson Tiller
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
~ Zakk Wylde
If you are a singer and you lose your voice, you realize that you have other skill sets when that is taken out of the equation.
~ Annie Golden
For listeners, the song 'Kehne ko jashn-e-baharaa hai' looks a very easy number. In fact, it was a challenge to sing the song as I had to really suppress my voice and make it appear like a casual track.
~ Javed Ali
If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.
~ Avery Brooks
I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
~ Ann Patchett
Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
~ Cab Calloway
I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover.
~ Vincent Kartheiser
I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security.
~ Robert Stack
My dad had such a cool job. When you're a voiceover actor, it's a whole different skill - you're bringing these huge, larger-than-life monsters and characters to life. And, also, you have to learn accents.
~ Ashley Bell
I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
~ Kate Winslet
People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive.
~ Matt Lucas
I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn't the class clown, but I knew I had this skill.
~ Steve Coogan
Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.
~ Luke Evans
I do voices. I can sound like a man or cartoon character. I also have very believable Spanish and English accents.
~ Jessie James Decker