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  • I loved dancing the tango at the 1994 Nurses Ball Talent Show. I thought I'd be dancing with Brad Maule (Tony) but the writers revved up the passion by pairing me with Leigh McCloskey, my lover Damian. During dress rehearsal, for a goof, Leigh and Brad ran into each others arms instead! -- Jacklyn Zeman
  • I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows. -- Barry Mann
  • I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard. -- Cheryl Lynn
  • I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool. -- Josh Groban
  • I get really frustrated with people who turn their noses up at talent shows like 'The Voice' and 'X-Factor.' -- Ricki-Lee Coulter
  • As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord. -- Otis Redding
  • You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday. -- JJ Feild
  • I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back. -- Wanda Sykes
  • I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could. -- James Brown
  • We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal. -- Melissa Etheridge
  • I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage. -- Jermaine Dupri
  • She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show? -- David Nicholls
  • I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school and every year I participated in the talent shows and the school plays, all of 'em. -- Ariel Pink
  • I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would go to the local theater. I was always in dance. I was always performing. That was always my thing. -- Odeya Rush
  • I had gone to a talent show, I was interested in American hip-hop music, with my older brother, to another town and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful. -- Ishmael
  • I sang "Patience" by Guns N' Roses for my sixth grade talent show and I wanted to be an actor when I was younger. It was all very, very theatrical. It was only later that I separated the two and thought of myself as quite the opposite of an actor. -- Ariel Pink
  • When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything. -- Trey Parker
  • When I was a kid. I never really had luck with the ladies my early years in high school. Then I started singing and I found that helped, so I would go in the talent show every year. It was always some female singer that would go up there and blast out some Celine Dion classic and just blow me away. -- Paolo Nutini
  • People ask me all the time, 'Are you fed up with reality TV?' At the end of the day, it can affect my career in the sense that the more reality shows there are, the less scripted dramas out there, but I can't ever really knock them. I started on 'Popstars,' which was a reality talent show. I have respect for them. -- Josh Henderson
  • God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That is where we are, even in the evangelical churches, and I don't mind telling you that most of the people we say we are trying to reach will never come to a church to see a lot of amateur actors putting on a home-talent show. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • I wouldn't mind being a talent show judge if it didn't run for too long. -- Cilla Black
  • The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom. -- Daryl Hall
  • I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent. -- Young Buck
  • I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say. -- David Walton
  • I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent. -- Mike Judge
  • You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday. -- JJ Feild
  • I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show. -- Lorde
  • Music reality shows provide a platform to people who have talent and gives them visibility and exposure. It is a win-win situation for participants. -- Shreya Ghoshal
  • Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one? -- John Cleese
  • Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's strengths and shortcomings. -- Shawn Amos
  • Radio for years and years looked at the same pool of talent. I always believed there were other people in the world that could do radio shows. -- Scott Greenstein
  • People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with. -- Bruce Campbell
  • Certain formats should never be forgotten, 'Blind Date' for instance, because 'Britain's Got Talent' is really 'New Faces' or 'The Gong Show,' whilst we're basically 'Opportunity Knocks.' -- Nigel Lythgoe
  • In the U.K., I came from a talent show. I was watched by millions of people, so instantly when I came out from the show, people knew who I was. -- Olly Murs
  • No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business.' I don't have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business. -- Jerry Springer
  • [People] don't know the talent and I want to show them. -- Tony Sunshine
  • Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself. -- Ice Cube
  • I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy. -- Jamie Farr
  • Your money, your singleness, marriage, talent and time, they were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is Divine -- lecrae
  • Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough. -- James Hillman
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  • Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential -- Gordon Brown
  • I'm just a kid in a candy store right now, trying to have fun. I'm getting a chance to show my ability and my talent. -- Dwyane Wade
  • That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck. -- Joan Leslie
  • One day, when I was about eight years old, some kids pushed me on stage at school during a talent show because they knew I could sing. -- Mavis Staples
  • There's a lot that I'd love to do. I haven't had a chance to really show the breadth of my talent, so I look forward to that. -- Malik Yoba
  • The good show is not about people fighting or getting drunk or throwing up on each other, or hating each other - it's about celebrating people's talent. -- Cat Deeley
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  • I'd like to say I'm one of the tight ends here and I hope this week helps me show that I do have the talent to be considered that. -- Maxx Williams
  • Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • One time, in New Orleans at a youth convention for my church, I read out of the phone book during a talent show. I made it all the way to 'J' before people started booing. -- Travis J. Dahnke
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