Quotes About Talent

River water and talent can't be stopped forever.

Discover what you love to do the most, and strengthen it.

If you are good at something never do it for free but if someone needs your help and deserve the help do it for free you will get respect..

You have a great potential.

…to own only a little talent…was an awful, plaguing thing….being only a little bit special meant you expected too much, most of the time.

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

Winning" is taking the talent or potential you were born with, and have since developed, and using it fully toward a goal or purpose that makes you happy.

It's not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas... The more important talent is to be able to recognize good ideas from other people.

The fact that you can do something doesn't mean you are called to do it.

Every person deserves a chance to show what they can best offer world.

See people in the light of their potentials, not their problems.

In our beautiful memoryWe were all handsomeWe could all singWe all had the heart Of the prettiest girl in townAnd we all hit .300

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.

What elevates one and not another to the level of genius is not only talent and ambition and luck, but a gift for turning everything to the purpose. ... Perhaps that is a common element in the story of genius: beyond talent and ambition and luck, in some degree you have to be forcibly booted out of everyday life and everyday goals. In any case, it was like that with Brahms. The fulfillment of love was denied him so that other things might take wing.

Asking that woman to take a sideline seat is like asking Johnny Depp to stop being hot.

Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible.

I love doing comedy. Absolutely love it. After 'Wedding Crashers ' people suddenly realized that it was something I could do.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.