If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.

I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to.

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

If you put your hand on the piano, you play a note. It's in tune. But if you put it on the violin, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. You have to figure it out.

A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.