Talent Refinement Quotes

Even great actors have to polish their skills and rejuvenate.

Coming out of high school, I think it was good for me instead of going to college because college and the NBA are two different things. You can dominate on the college level, but the NBA is a whole different story. The dudes that do the best are the ones who work hard.

You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

I started playing instruments before I started making beats, and I was never the best guitarist or the best pianist or the best drummer. And when I started making beats, I was not the best beatmaker, and when I started making hooks, I was not the best vocal melody person. When I first started rapping, I wasn't the best rapper at all.

Play what you know and then play above that

Hopefully I've gotten better as an actor as the years have gone on, but the type of work I want to do has never changed.

My advice to actors? To successful actors, it's, 'sock it away,' and unsuccessful actors, it's just, 'Just keep at it. Don't do it unless you have to do it, and if you have to do it, keep - you've got to keep your instrument in shape.' You just got to keep on getting better. If you're not getting better, you're standing still.

I have to evolve as an actor.

I really enjoy acting. I feel I'm getting better and better with each movie I make.

Every actor evolves over a period of time.

At first, I was a pretty horrific singer, and then I got a little better.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.

I've had probably way too many acting classes, and you try to sort of shed - I think over a period of time, you'll shed what doesn't stick with you, and you'll hang onto those things that do.

I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.

I was talented at a young age, but I still had to grow and develop further.

In acting, you can always grow and get better - even if you think you're at your limit.

As I got older, my voice got better.

Never stop training, no matter what level you're at. Never, ever stop putting your talent under a microscope and asking, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah - I'm doing all this stuff right, but what's wrong with my acting?'

I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents.

When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.

While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.