Talent Quotes
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I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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Talent is not enough. You need to be in the right place at the right moment.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.
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I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
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If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
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There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?
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My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'
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The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interesting perks has become a necessity, not a nice-to-have.
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I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
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All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
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High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.
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Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.
