Quotes About Talent

The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

What we're always looking for in students is who they are, and I think that's something that happens on the 'Sewing Bee.'

During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

It's my belief that Barcelona are successful because they have a number of youth teams alongside the first team. They are where it begins.

I've never been interested in being famous. I enjoy acting. That's what's important to me.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

Being funny was something I was doing before I understood what that even was. Now I'm making a career out of it.

I was always rewarded for being funny. I liked being funny.

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't want to talk about it.

People don't realize that everyone in the NBA is really good. The difference is having a coach that believes in you.

If I weren't an actor, I would have been a bad actor because this is where I belong. This is my love and my passion.

If someone like Pete Schoening was the equivalent of a major-league baseball star, my fellow clients and I were like a ragtag collection of pretty decent small-town softball players who'd bribed their way into the World Series.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.2 —PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, at a dinner in honor of all living recipients of the Nobel Prize, 1962

Robert Shelton of The New York Times had reviewed a Greenwich Village performance by a young folk singer, Bob Dylan. "His clothes may need a bit of tailoring," Shelton wrote of Dylan, "but when he works his guitar, harmonica or piano, and composes new songs faster than he can remember them, there is no doubt that he is bursting at the seams with talent.

I know a lot of artists. The greatest loves of all their lives are their creations. Unfortunately most of us don't have that kind of talent, so we have to make do with falling in love with real people.

Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head.

So many Jonathans. A plague of literary Jonathans. If you read only the New York Times Book Review, you'd think it was the most common male name in America. Synonymous with talent, greatness. Ambition, vitality.

It was Andreas's gift, maybe his greatest, to find singular

Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself.

Mingus Rude, Arthur Lomb, Gabriel Stern and Tim Vandertooth, even Aaron K. Doily: Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into someone else. His was a special talent for encountering persons about to shed one identity or disguise for another. He took it in stride by now.