Inner Talent Quotes

I sense an actor in me.

It is important what you look like, period. So, I grew up and realized, 'Just put on the shoes and wear some nice clothes and forget about it and try to sing well.'

There is a latent talent in everyone. I am nothing extraordinary just because I happen to be an actor. Everybody is extraordinary in his own way. One must identify one's own talent early on - one is not great merely when he gets recognized by others - and one doesn't become a nobody just because his talent is not widely known.

Music has always been in me.

I don't read music. I've never had a lesson. I don't know anything about music other than what my inner knowledge is.

You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can’t ever go away. It’s what other people only dream about. You’re an artist.

All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.

I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.

It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.

I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.

Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.

He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

I think everyone has music inside them, and my hope is that I can help them find it.

Find your own style, whatever it is. Whatever is inside you, bring that out. I think that's when you have something unique.

I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

Everything you do has certain significance, a certain weight. I think there is a film in everyone.

I always had an actor within me.

I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

My work unblocks people, and then I look at the work that they do, and I think, 'My God, how could they not have known they were talented? How could they not have known?'