Talent Quotes

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

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

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.

Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

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

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

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.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and 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.

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

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?

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.