Talent Quotes

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta' be creative, you gotta' let your talent take over.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

'America's Got Talent' has really opened a lot of doors for me. I want to do a lot more TV.

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

Character is more important than talent.

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

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.

You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

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.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.

I've got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don't know what it does to you, I don't really know.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.

I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.