Talent Quotes

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.

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.

My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent.

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.

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

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.

But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada.

You see Boris Becker, Mats Wilander, Nadal, Pete Sampras - they were all great when they were young. As a coach, you can see that type of talent at an early age.