Quotes About Talent

We are not all capable of everything.

This is always a problem. Someone saying "I'm going to paint a thoroughbred at full gallop", does not mean they can. More often than not, they end up scrawling something that just about looks like a squashed rat.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

If you lack experience or a particular talent or skill and you don't want to pay the price to acquire it, then hire someone who has it to do the job for you.

Jefferson felt it should be the goal of the whole nation to use education and every other means to stimulate and encourage those citizens who clearly exhibited a special talent for public service. He felt one of the greatest threats to the new government would be the day when the best qualified people refused to undertake the tedious, arduous, and sometimes unpleasant task of filling important public offices.

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at.

My name on the title-page seems a pseudonym for someone else, someone talented but near the border of sanity...

You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.

I feel like I owe Juilliard everything... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you cant afford it, you can get a scholarship.

I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.

Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.

If I hadn't been living here [in America], do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential

Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.

I'm just a kid in a candy store right now, trying to have fun. I'm getting a chance to show my ability and my talent.

I'm attracted to any type of endeavor that gives me the chance to express what's going on inside me.

Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent.

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.

George Brett could roll out of bed on Christmas morning and hit a line drive.

People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?