Talent Quotes - Page 47

if you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.

I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time

Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are talented in music, but they're trying to figure out how to go about it.

Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.

Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

I've always loved to sing and dance, but the caliber of my talent in those areas obviously is not nearing Patti LuPone or Sutton Foster.

Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.

Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.

Tony Bennett said to me, "Wow, your talent is amazing." Maybe he's a bore, maybe he's a jerk, but when he said that to me, I didn't need anything more than that.

I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Self-doubt kills talent.

I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.

McKinty is an exciting new talent.

I don't think that I have any musical talent.

I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.

What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.