Talent Quotes

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.

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

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.

If I have a talent, it's already been exploited! I've shown everything I can do to the public.

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.

It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.

At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

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

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.

I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

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.

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

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

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on 'Britain's Got Talent'.

An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Hope is a talent like any other.

I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

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

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

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.

The talent is in the choices.

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

I've never seen a theater community to rival that of Chicago. Neither New York nor L.A. has the raw talent or integrity that Chicago theater has, and I think it's because Chicago doesn't have Broadway or the film and TV business to distract it.

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

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

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.