Talent Quotes

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

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

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

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it.

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.'

I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality.

In order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all.

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

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

But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

I feel like directing is an innate talent.

With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.

I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.