Quotes About Talent

I'm a very good 15- to 18-foot shooter.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now.

To be good to yourself ... Sometimes it seems that takes a special talent all its own.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.

My family was not an artistic family, but somewhere in my head, I thought I might be good at it. I don't know why I thought it. I had no evidence to think I might be good at it.

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.

Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances.

I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch.

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.

I don't think I gave a good enough performance to be nominated for it. I thought I gave a fine performance, but those things are supposed to be about giving an extraordinary performance.

It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.

What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

I am very good at what I do. I am better at it than anybody else.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.