Quotes About Talent

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

I'd love to be an artist. My mum is so talented and she used to design her own greetings cards. I'm crap at drawing though.

When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.

The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy?

There was nothing extraordinary about the work I was doing as a composer though I had delivered hits.

Music composition was a creative call for me, and it gives me a kick. But I never thought that I would ever sing professionally, even though I used to sing a lot.

The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.

I never thought of myself as special or particularly good at anything. But once I started ballet, suddenly I had a new identity: prodigy.

I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.

I saw 'Magic Mike,' and I thought it was great.

I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.

I did an imitation of him to make the crew laugh. To my shock, there was Cary Grant behind me. He got very angry. I was sent all the way from RKO to David Selznick's office and was told not to do it anymore. I thought to myself, 'I must have been pretty good to make him that angry.'

I had only heard about Fall Out Boy a couple months before we contacted him. I heard 'Saturday' and 'Grand Theft Autumn' and thought the lyrics were smart and the singer was insanely talented.

With technology you can now be your own record company, director, producer, etc. If you have talent, you can display it on the Internet and the world will tell you their thoughts in the matter of seconds!

Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

Five thousand Don Hecks are not worth one Neal Adams.

Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.

I don't think Indian actors are good. A couple of them are, like Anupam Kher, but not many are there like him in the industry. There are thousand of actors and actresses in the industry, but you can count on hand how many of them are really good; the rest of them are just pretty faces.

When the 'greats of all-time' put out their first albums, it wasn't a thousand features on it. And I'm one of the greats in my eyes.

In our first decade, I interviewed about five thousand people in pursuit of the talent that would create our future. As our success grew, we became known across the four corners of finance not just for our outstanding returns, but also for our outstanding people.

At 10 years old, I was in my church band, playing in front of a couple thousand people every week.