Quotes About Talent

This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.

A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

I wouldn't have taken up modeling as a profession. It was more of a hobby.

I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.

If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

The word 'star' is misused. A good film will never fail. And if you have become an actor to become a star, then your reason of being in this profession is wrong. It amounts to abusing the art.

I was a dancer, growing up, and I definitely thought that was going to be my profession.

Even in high school, music was just a really fun thing on the side. I don't think I grasped the fact that it could be a profession.

I was damn lucky to choose this profession. I had no idea when I started out that I was really an illusionist and a magician.

Solomon was a musician and David was a musician, so it's a profession that I take seriously.

I am seriously thinking of making dance as my major profession.

I don't act to prove anything to anyone. I like acting. It is the only profession I know.

I'm a professional; I feel I'm one of the best in the game.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent.

I am a different person in front of the camera; it comes as easy to me as breathing does.

The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.

When I first started acting, I knew that you have to learn different skills for different roles.

When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

I'm talented enough to do a lot of different things.

There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.