I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.
When Mahela Jayawardene was with us before the Test series against Pakistan he said it should all be about enjoying your talent and skill. He took his bat out there to score runs and enjoy playing the game.
I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.
Songwriting is what I do, and there could be worse burdens to carry.
As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door.
There will always be some films that the audience would like and some that they don't. But if I start becoming a slave to appreciation, I will be subjecting myself and my talent to one particular type of taste. I don't want to do that.
You don't do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?
The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.
The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.
If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.
I've always wanted to be an actor that explores different genres and different characters.
Thank God for my imagination. For my abilities to mimic.
Great talents appear whenever the social conditions favorable to their development exist. This means that every man of talent who actually appears, every man of talent who becomes a social force, is the product of social relations.
In a way, I feel that film roles haven't given me the opportunity to show I have a sense of humor.
Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
The thing about talent is that it comes at different ages, sometimes at a very early age. That's when I find it to be the most challenging.
I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.
All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.
You have a talent that is unique in its expression, so unique that there's no one else alive on this planet that has that talent, or that expression of that talent. This means that there's one thing you can do and one way of doing it that is better than anyone else on this entire planet.
I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something.
I have always been a multitasker when it comes to my career; I've been an actress, a singer and everything because I love to do what I do.
According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.
The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.
I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.
Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style.
