Talent Quotes

The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different.

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

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.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

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.