Quotes About Talent

The more talented a young man is, the earlier the recruiting process usually begins.

I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.

Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.

I'm not a leading man.

Whether you like it or not, this man is the future of the WWE and I really wouldn't talk to him like that. Because he is The Miz and he is awesome.

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

Maybe now people will give a man credit where credit is deserved. Roy Jones was beaten by a better fighter period. I'm one of the best in the world.

Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?

Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.

I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that.