Birthday Quote by Dawn Foster

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she…

— Richard Dreyfuss

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly…

— Sydney Brenner

I think I was 10 when I did my first community play, and then I started booking bigger roles in these plays, and people…

— Lili Reinhart

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

— Thomas A. Bailey

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The…

— Anthony Minghella

I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some…

— Celia Imrie

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

— Hanna Rosin

I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important…

— Ned Vizzini

My confidence and drive to go play came when I realized how gifted I was at such a young age and how much bigger…

— Bo Jackson

I was a good but not super serious student until about 10th grade, until I was about 14 or 15. Then I started to…

— Sal Khan

From an early age, my initiative took many forms - teaching myself magic so I could do magic shows, buying wholesale goods and then…

— Daniel Lubetzky

At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- and 18-year-olds,…

— Dan Stevens