Talent Quotes

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada.

You see Boris Becker, Mats Wilander, Nadal, Pete Sampras - they were all great when they were young. As a coach, you can see that type of talent at an early age.

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.

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.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.

Mine's a pretty simple strategy: there's not a lot of talent here, but there's a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy.

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.