“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.” PeopleShouldArtSaidPlayWantedSchoolDesireActorsActingTeacherTalentFootballGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolAcceptedHonestlyPerformingGradesAuditionsWhimPerforming ArtsEnglish Teacher Author:Ving Rhames
“In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.” SchoolDesireTalentHigh School Author:Beth Kephart
“A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject?” IfsStillsUseSchoolCoursesCareersWeekSubjectsTalentStudentsSolutionsHigh SchoolExcuseTechniqueDullPortionsDevotedMathematicianTrianglesFormal EducationHigh School StudentsTrigonometry Author:John G. Kemeny
“You go through high school and college the same way: never listening to your coaches because you're the best. But when you get to the pros, all that stops because everybody there has talent.” WaySchoolTalentCollegeListeningHigh SchoolCoachesYou Re The Best Author:Tom Brady
“I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.” KnowsMindMatterSchoolTalentBasketballHigh SchoolBaseball Author:Eric Davis
“I knew that I was a good writer in high school and won awards, and I was the editor of my school newspaper. So I knew that I was a good writer and I wanted to somehow capitalize and sort of utilize a talent that I thought I had.” WantedSchoolTalentHigh SchoolNewspapersAwardsEditorsGood Writers Author:Halle Berry
“When I was a kid. I never really had luck with the ladies my early years in high school. Then I started singing and I found that helped, so I would go in the talent show every year. It was always some female singer that would go up there and blast out some Celine Dion classic and just blow me away.” YearsShowsKidsSchoolFoundTalentSingingHigh SchoolFemaleLuckBlowSingersClassicBlastTalent ShowCelineFemale Singers Author:Paolo Nutini
“Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.” I CanHardSchoolThreeAbilityTalentKeysExerciseHigh SchoolClubsThrownTunesGleeGreat Talent Author:Alan Alda
“It was only when I got to high school and was in the art program that my artistic talent was recognized. The art program was directed by a wonderful and a very important person in my life - Charlotte Ranger, who was referred to as Mrs. Ranger. She had been teaching in the school for many years.” YearsPersonsArtImportantSchoolWonderfulTeachingTalentHigh SchoolProgramArtisticRangersCharlotteImportant PersonArtistic Talent Author:Paul Smith
“People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the way back before high school. It's a stereotype put on me for a long time because I'm African-American and I'm a dual-threat quarterback. I don't know why that stereotype is still around. It's about talent and the ability to throw the ball, not the color of your skin or your ability to also be a dangerous runner.” PeopleKnowsWayLongStillsI CanRunningSchoolAbilityCareersTalentDangerousColorLong TimeHigh SchoolSkinsBallsThreatAfrican AmericanRunnersStereotypeQuarterback Author:Deshaun Watson
“In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.” LittlesArtStillsSchoolArtistAbilityTeacherTalentCollegeLessonsHigh SchoolAppreciateBlueVery GoodEnthusiasmLandscapeTeensHungPortraitsEarnestEccentricRibbonsRenderingStill LifeArt TeacherWatercolorsSalieri Author:Christina Baker Kline
“Talent doesn't appear over night. It takes a lot of work and honing your craft, but also don't give up because people may say you're not good enough. I had so many teachers in high school and college saying "You're not going to make it. You're not. You can't." Luckily I had enough people around me who said I could.” PeopleGivingMaySaidEnoughSchoolNightTeacherTalentCollegeGiving UpHigh SchoolCraftsGood EnoughDon't Give UpHad EnoughNot Good EnoughHoning Author:Lea Michele