Quotes About Talent

In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

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.

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

I might not be able to hold my drink or my man, but what I can hold, is a tune. Point me in the right direction and give me a bloody mic.

I was just watching "So You Think You Can Dance," flipping channels, and I was like man, I could never do that.

All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.

How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.

A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

I'm comedy's forgotten nearly man.

I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.

Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.

All men are creative but few are artists.