Talent Quotes

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

With some other top players I'm part of a company trying to put on events in Europe, especially Germany, but also Poland, Austria, Russia. There's so much talent coming out of the Far East now, and we want the same thing in Europe.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

Your talent is in your choice.

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.

I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

Talent is being able to please people.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.