I feel there are only well acted or badly acted roles and no such thing as a good actor or actress.
I hate to say it's not a Laker but Michael Jordan. He's been the greatest player I've ever seen. And I'm probably a harsh judge of talent in the sense that I admire players that are really good defensive players and really good offensive players.
For some people, it's like I can't be a good actress because I grew up with a silver spoon.
'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist.
If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.
The way to judge a new artist is by listening to their albums and gauging the progress that they make from the first record to the next one.
I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!
There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.
There's kind of a double standard: if a musician decides they want to act, everybody falls over themselves. But if you're an actor and you have a band, everyone's, 'Ugh, disgusting! It's a vanity project.'
The only question we should ask is, 'Are they good?' I've met great actors, black and white, and I've met bad actors, black and white.
Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.
My actress friends would tell me their horror stories, or say they couldn't get work, and were deemed too old, even though they were established and talented and fit and gorgeous. It was frustrating for them and it was frustrating to hear. Maybe because I was the same age as them and it was already hard enough trying to cross over to the 40s without someone judging your every move.
I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball.
A lot of people think most YouTubers are just untalented kids who film themselves for four minutes, and that's all they do for their week.
I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see 'em. I know players that can play and can't play.
For many activities, people cannot rely solely on themselves in evaluating their ability level because such judgments require inferences from probabilistic indicants of talent about which they may have limited knowledge. Self-appraisals are, therefore, partly based on the opinions of others who presumably possess evaluative competence
You read a script, and you know if you need to do it.
I am not much of a good singer, but many people still think that I should sing well, because I am a musical actor.
Everyone calls his son his son, whether he has talents or has not talents.
Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.
