I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.
You can't be in the tech community... without realizing there's a big shortage of talent.
I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.
I know there are problems that I say to myself, If maybe I was a little more gifted I might have been able to solve. But that's not because I believe what I did was a mistake. It's that maybe it required the talents of a Lincoln.
Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.
The executive female talent gap is real, and that's why it's critical to champion women throughout their careers.
It goes without saying that when it came to musical talent, George was in a completely different league to me - as he was to most people!
Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
Most salespeople would like to think of themselves as being rock stars, but they don't display the talent to match their definition.
I did a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his skill level was eons ahead of mine. It was really more like an abattoir - he just slaughtered my character over and over again.
My brain is a great fashion designer. Unfortunately, I don't have the skills to do it.
It's very difficult to figure out, for me, what stops really talented young female filmmakers from having the kind of careers that their really talented young male counterparts are having.
Yes, I mean, I can't match up to my mother's acting skills, actually both my parents. I just cannot match up to them. My mother was such a powerful and a respectable performer. They are actually overshadowing me and yes, I cannot be as good as them.
