Quotes About Potential

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

My progress on the piano and my motivation to practice increased dramatically when I caught a vision of my potential.

I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him.

The first time I picked up a law book, it was like I had done it all my life. There was just something that happened to me when I did that, and I realized there was a hidden gift there I didn't know I had.

If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was interested in acting. Of course, I was a little bit interested in it; I'm sure that's part of the reason I moved to L.A. even though I never admitted it to myself.

I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.

No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.

I don't like to be pigeonholed; I don't like when people won't see me for something because they don't think I can do it. I always feel like, at least give me the shot.

Possibly one of the most exciting aspects of Pilates is that anyone can do it, and everyone can achieve amazing results.

Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it.

For me, I look at a pilot and go, 'I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential of the story.' And I also go, 'That didn't work. I could change that. Maybe that works. I don't know. We'll see.' For me, I look at it, as an actor, as what can I improve upon?

When you make a pilot, you've never seen the show before; you don't know what it is.

When you do a pilot, you can't always tell what you have.

When you're doing a pilot, you don't know where it will end up, and then you're being put up with the best of the best.

If you go back and look at the pilot of 'Seinfeld,' no one would have thought that show would be what it became, and television isn't given that kind of chance anymore.

I always felt that Jay Z, if he had a different upbringing, could be on Wall Street or in politics. If you really listen to Jay Z talk, he's kind of the smartest guy in the room.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

I'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.

Watching myself on screen doing a Viennese Waltz, I think, 'Ok, you're capable of doing more than you think.'

As a child, I spent a lot of time wandering around the prairies and in the hills, and there was a sense that it was such a wide-open space, and there was kind of a feeling of potential. I could imagine anything happening there.

Not yet, but I do wanna work with Leona Lewis. I love her, she's so sweet! I think she's working on her album as well so I'd love to do a nice powerful female duet with her. I think our voices would blend really well. There's a couple of other people I'd love to work with - like Fergie, Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys.

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.