Talent Quotes

Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.

As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.

I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or sort of curating things out of the world and putting them into books.

Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even.

Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.

Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

I've always loved to sing and dance, but the caliber of my talent in those areas obviously is not nearing Patti LuPone or Sutton Foster.

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them

Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

I'm a huge Dallas Mavs fan. What I love about Dirk Nowitzki is he has just as much talent as everyone else, if not more, and he never toots his own horn. He's this silent warrior.

A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively.

I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.

Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.

I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time

if you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.

In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.

I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.

Hopefully, some day I help some of this up-and-coming talent and promote them. Boxing is growing and is here to stay.

They, and they only, advantage themselves by travel, who, well fraught with the experience of what their own country affords, carry ever with them large and thriving talents.

Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true painters.

The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in.

Everyone is psychic. Being psychic is not a particular talent. Everybody has a left foot. Some people may just walk with that foot, some people may drag it, and some may learn to dance with it.

I feel that all of us can contribute something, and it doesn't have to be money. It can just be service or talent.

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to be wasted to get up there and sing.

I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.

Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.

Very sad to hear the news about George Michael. An incredible talent who brought joy to millions of us with his music.

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

I am aware of the talent I was gifted and had to execute against it. It is just being very self aware and betting on your best strength.

Friday was added to my nickname because I have a talent of getting on with most people. So it's a bit of a man Friday thing.

Travelling is like a talent, like whistling or dancing. And some people have it.

The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity.

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a painter. I never had that extreme talent.