Talent Origin Quotes

I had never met an actress or an actor when I thought that I might like to be one. I had never been around people in show business or from the theater or from movies or anything. And I say that as an encouragement, I don't know some people who want to be doing what I'm doing or be involved in film. You don't have to be from it to get interested and get involved. I certainly wasn't.

My father was a restaurant man, laundry man in his lifetime. And I've often wondered how and why did I become an actor? Where did I get the so-called talent to express myself? And I look back, and I see that my mother was very animated. I can remember that she used to, what she called 'bei zhu.'

I think a lot of people assume you need to be born into a special creative family to have a career as a writer. So I never thought it would happen for me.

I was never the class clown, and I've no idea where the comedy came from.

Ingrid Bergman made an enormous impression on me. I couldn't imagine where that kind of acting talent came from.

It's interesting because neither of my parents play instruments. They both love music, but neither of them are musicians. Somehow, I was drawn to it.

I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.

My family didn't come from fame. No one was musical in my family except for me.

I didn't get interested in music. It was a gift from God.