“I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.” HeartSometimesBigsKidsAmericaFunWatchesTalentIdolsCornyAdmissionWatchersAmerican Idol Author:Katey Sagal
“With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.” IfsMadeDifferentKidsAgeGuyActorsChanceTalentMade ItCastingTake A Chance Author:Elia Kazan
“Every child has his own beauty, her own talents. Ikarus Jackson can fly through the air; I want kids to find their own set of wings and soar with him.” WantChildrenKidsAirTalentWingsSoar Author:Christopher Myers
“Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.” WantRealKidsAbleTurnsMillionsTalentDistractionReal Things Author:Woody Allen
“We [Americans] are a nation of immigrants. We all understand what this country has become because talent from all around the world wants to come here, people who are willing to take risks, people who want to build on their dreams and make sure their kids have an - even bigger dreams than they have.” PeopleWorldWantCountryDreamKidsNationsRiskTalentWillingBiggerAround The WorldImmigrantsBigger Dreams Author:Barack Obama
“Every kid thinks they have something special about themselves. Every adult thinks they have a big idea at some point in their life. Rather than pursue every thing they possibly can to prepare themselves to enable their idea or special talent, they tend to wing it and make excuses.” ThinkingIdeasBigsKidsSpecialTalentAdultsWingsExcusePursueSomething SpecialBig IdeasSpecial Talents Author:Mark Cuban
“I always wanted to write, even before I realized that there was a comedy writers' world, or what that life was like. I never thought of myself, at least as a little kid, in terms of being the onscreen talent. I always thought it'd be so much fun to write sketches and be a writer. Even as little as 6 or 7, that's what my main interest was.” WorldWritingLittlesKidsWantedFunTermInterestComedyTalentI RealizedLittle Kid Author:Mindy Kaling
“There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.” GivingArtImportantDifferentSometimesKidsSchoolSpaceCreativityCreativeTalentTypeTraditionalPlatforms Author:Caity Lotz
“I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve the problems for them. They could use their own ingenuity, use their own talents to solve whatever the issue was. And I like that still. I think that children want to read about heroic children. They don't want to read about children that have to be saved all the time.” ThinkingWantNeedsChildrenStillsBookUseProblemKidsReadingIssuesTalentAdultsSolveSavedHeroicReading BooksIngenuity Author:John Boyne
“I don't get a chance to cry that often on film, so I was hoping that talent would come my way, that day. I cheated, I guess, when I just started looking at my technology device - my iPhone - to look at pictures of my kids, before I did the scene where I had to cry. That was a good trick that I found.” WayLooksKidsFilmFoundChanceTechnologyTalentCrySceneTricksMy WayDevicesCheatedIphoneI Cheated Author:Jason Bateman
“It enrages me to see only certain players singled out for the Hall of Fame because they were born with a God-given specialty. When I take my kids to the Baseball Hall of Fame, I want them to experience the full array of talents that make the game what it is today, not just the larger-than-life freaks of nature. I want them to know that you don't have to be the biggest or the strongest to reach your goals, and that hard work and perseverance are also rewarded.” KnowsWantHardKidsTodayCertainGamesGivenGoalBornPlayerTalentHard WorkFameBaseballPerseveranceHallsStrongestFreakHall Of FameSpecialtyLarger Than LifeReaching Your GoalsBaseball Hall Of Fame Author:Bert Blyleven
“The generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll in and land a lead in a Scorsese film. You don't have to have prove yourself by working up the ranks, doing the classics, and getting the canon under your belt in the way the great Sirs and Dames of mom and dad's generation - the [Ben] Kingsleys and [Helen] Mirrens and [Anthony] Hopkinses and people of that ilk.” PeopleIfsWorldWayKidsFilmBornGenerationsLandTalentMomDadProveBeltsMom And DadLead InCanonHelenDamesScorseseProving YourselfRaw Talent Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“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
“I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.” PeopleKidsUsedTalentRapKeep GoingImpressed Author:Danny Brown
“I'm just a kid in a candy store right now, trying to have fun. I'm getting a chance to show my ability and my talent.” TryingShowsKidsFunChanceAbilityTalentRight NowStoresHaving FunCandyCandy Stores Author:Dwyane Wade
“I think if you really put your mind to something you can do it. Five and a half years ago I couldn't stand on stage and play guitar. I didn't have enough talent as a kid to play guitar. I started really late. I hired a guitar teacher when I was in Nashville and I applied myself and stayed focused.” IfsThinkingYearsMindEnoughPlayKidsCan DoHalfFiveTeacherStageTalentLateYears AgoGuitarFocusedYou Can Do ItNashvilleHalf A Year Author:Jimmy Wayne
“When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid, you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story, you're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.” PersonsStoriesKidsAgeEmotionGrowingTalentAddInstinctHopefullyTrajectoryRaw TalentRaw EmotionDirecting MoviesGrowing As A Person Author:F. Gary Gray
“Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic standpoint, is we're not producing the talent we need.” IfsNeedsHas BeensProblemKidsEconomicTalentDeserveAverageSelfishJust BeingStandpointProcessingBeing Selfish Author:L. Todd Rose
“Eminem has talent, and his talent is the thing that influences many young people who would have never gone anywhere near rap. White kids in different parts of the world use him as a barometer and the standard to live up to. In some ways, Eminem is an artist who has ushered in a new movement.” PeopleWorldWayDifferentUseKidsYoungArtistWhiteGoneInfluenceTalentMovementStandardsRapBarometer Author:Chuck D
“One day, when I was about eight years old, some kids pushed me on stage at school during a talent show because they knew I could sing.” YearsShowsKidsSchoolStageTalentOne DayEightTalent Show Author:Mavis Staples
“Actually, I started as a ventriloquist and my music teacher said, "Why don't you emcee the talent show?" My act was out of the back of Boys' Life magazine-they had a whole series of jokes in the back of Boys' Life magazine for Boy Scouts. So my act was jokes with my ventriloquist figure, and it was really bad, but I walked into the classroom afterward and the kids went, "Wow, you're cool." I wasn't cool at all, but I thought, "Well, this is a pretty good deal."” WellsSaidWholeShowsKidsDealsBoysTeacherTalentFiguresJokesSeriesMagazinesWowClassroomBoy ScoutMusic TeacherTalent ShowEmcee Author:David Copperfield