Rolf Harris Quotes

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

No, she is right up there with the best I've worked with. I was very impressed with her, I really was.

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the prohibition, even though I was - and knew I was - among the best speakers and writers of my age cohort. I don't mean I was the best historian - a quite different measure.

The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.

I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade.

Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

Winning the Cup at a young age is a whole other level.

Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.

All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

My confidence and drive to go play came when I realized how gifted I was at such a young age and how much bigger my build was than the kids my age.

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

I can't believe anyone can have played the game of football as well as Messi.

I think it's a great handicap to be discovered at an early age. I didn't have that burden of early success. I had the much more livable and durable career where success comes late, and comes slowly, and you ease into it. So by the time it comes, you're ready to deal with it.

Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.

I want to be remembered as one of the illest, youngest cats to do it successfully and to keep doing it successfully. My early story alone deserves to be told, because at 6 years-old I was discovered by one of the best producers of all time, Dr. Dre, and I went on tour at 6, and appeared on Snoop Dogg's album at the age of 7. And I'm still here. Nobody else has a story like that, and it has to end great.