The reason I've gotten so far has to do with an extraordinary talent that I had nothing to do with.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
For the amount of talent I had - and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke - I enjoyed a tremendous career.
Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.
There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.
To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.
You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.
It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.