Unexpected Talent Quotes

I had seen this comic called 'Invincible' created by two people I had never heard of before, Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker, and I was a huge fan. 'Invincible' probably had five or six issues under the belt, and the book was so impressive to me, I was surprised that I had never heard of them before. It's like they came out wholly formed.

You never know where you're going to find a great actor.

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

I didn't know Johnny Depp could act until he played me.

I think the whole boxing world was sleeping on me. They were sleeping on me hard.

Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.

I have not heard a Martha Stewart album yet. But, you know, it could happen.

I'm one of those artists that nobody ever sees coming. We started with Virgin in 1993. If you look at the climate of that time in reggae and you were to pick the top five people that'd have a shot at having mainstream success, I was nowhere in that equation at all.

Oh, I never knew I was going to be a great player.

I feel like everybody that saw my videos was like, 'Oh this dude's about to rap.' They just played my videos, and I feel like I shocked a lot of people.

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would have thought that this would be going on right now.

I didn't even expect myself to do music.

There are more second-, third-, fourth-, fifth- and so on in the big leagues than first-round picks.

I don't know why, but I was really good in that first play.

I still believe that the best art - be it music, comedy, painting, etc. - is the art that hasn't been asked for, or is expected.

Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere.

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician.

Being a good game show panelist is like being a virtuoso of the kazoo.

I never wanted to be an actor. It was something I found a passion for; it wasn't there immediately.

The craziest thing is I didn't know I could sing like this - ever. My voice has changed, or I've grown into it, woken up.

When we met Susan Boyle she was a very unassuming lady. We didn't expect anything and we were probably a little dismissive of her.