I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.'
Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune.
I don't necessarily want to hear about my talent or my greatness as an actor.
SBI Caps has a distinct advantage because most of our people are market recruits. We have a public sector heritage. Our challenge is to bring the best of both - public sector heritage and private sector talent - and provide a unique offering.
When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.
Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.
Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.
My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.
I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
Just like how you find players from different backgrounds in Indian cricket team, our Telugu industry is looking for talent, and it doesn't matter where it comes from.
If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.
Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
Don't be afraid to see the gift and talent you have, because that thing could lead to a substantial career for you. Because we all do something as good or better than most people.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.
Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.
I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.
My talent before singing is being able to interpret and understand my emotions. I've felt pain and felt it intensely, so every time I sing, I revisit it.
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.
Textiles embody all the dimensions of art: color, innovation, talent.
Intentionality and talent always matter. An extraordinary feat is certainly made more likely by someone's focus, hard work, etc. But chance also matters.
As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.
Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.
The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.
I'm just thankful to be blessed with my talent.
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.