Quotes About Talent

I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.

Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.

Equality has no place for genius.

Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.

The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for humanity.

People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.