Quotes About Talent

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress.

Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.

My mother says healers are born, not made.

I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.

My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.

Accomplishments have no color.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.