“You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.” KnowsShowsNextWinningWalksStreetsTalentMondayYou Can WinTalent Show Author:JJ Feild
“I get really frustrated with people who turn their noses up at talent shows like 'The Voice' and 'X-Factor.'” PeopleShowsTurnsVoiceTalentFactorsNosesFrustratedGet RealTalent Show Author:Ricki-Lee Coulter
“I had gone to a talent show, I was interested in American hip-hop music, with my older brother, to another town and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.” ShowsNextGoneMinutesTalentBrotherTownsHip HopPainfulHipsHopsOlder BrotherTalent ShowHip Hop Music Author:Ishmael
“The Gong Show was the greatest scam of all time. It was simple: We wanted to do a talent show. There weren't any venues for acts back then. We were gonna have a show of new, fresh, good acts. But we couldn't find any; they were all lousy. So rather than throw away the idea, I said, "Let's reverse it. Let's do lousy acts." Now, is that a scam? I'm telling you.” SaidIdeasShowsWantedSimpleTalentAll TimeReverseVenuesScamsGongsTalent Show Author:Chuck Barris
“As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.” HelpingShowsNightLordGrowing UpGrowingTalentGoes OnLet MeSeriesSundayFifteenLet Me GoSunday NightTalent Show Author:Otis Redding
“I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would go to the local theater. I was always in dance. I was always performing. That was always my thing.” ShowsSchoolTalentTheaterLocalsPerformingMonologuesTalent Show Author:Odeya Rush
“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 was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school and every year I participated in the talent shows and the school plays, all of 'em.” YearsRealPlayShowsSchoolTalentEmsElementary SchoolPrivate SchoolSchool PlaysTalent ShowThespians Author:Ariel Pink
“I sang "Patience" by Guns N' Roses for my sixth grade talent show and I wanted to be an actor when I was younger. It was all very, very theatrical. It was only later that I separated the two and thought of myself as quite the opposite of an actor.” TwoShowsWantedActorsTalentGunOppositesRoseGradesTheatricalSixth GradeTalent ShowGuns N Roses Author:Ariel Pink
“I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.” ShowsStageTalentJokesDown AndSatTalent Show Author:Wanda Sykes
“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
“I feel like success is really subjective. You could win a school talent show and be like "I was successful", or you could get a Number One in New Zealand and be like "I was successful', or you could win a Grammy and be like "I was successful".” FeelsShowsSchoolWinningNumbersSuccessfulTalentSubjectiveNew ZealandGrammyTalent Show Author:Thomston
“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
“If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities. If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born with talent, show your talent off.” PeopleIfsShowsOpportunityGivenBornShareTalentTalent ShowGiven Opportunity Author:Marco Pierre White