Quotes About Talent

West Ham have a great academy.

I didn't have the chance to play at West Ham, but in football, you always have a chance. When I went to Liverpool, I had the chance to show my quality.

Hamilton' has changed my life in so many ways. I really do have a family from that show. The people that I shared that stage with every night- they mean so much to me and they're so special and so talented. I'm just a fan of every single one of them and it was an honor to share that stage with them.

I wish that I could take credit for the success of 'Frozen' and 'Hamilton.' But I just feel lucky to be in 'em.

Every young actor wants to do 'Hamlet' on the West End. Why? Because they can bring something to it.

I can clap with one hand.

The first director I ever worked with on 'Thrones,' he had a big hand in casting me. He said he cast me because there was a bit of an Alec Guinness about me, but a very dangerous Alec Guinness.

I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

The simplest melodies are the hardest to play

Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'someone,' like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and in the end had to content himself with a cellar. Surely we must pity the Opera ghost!

But you would have lots of fun with me. For instance, I am the the greatest ventriloquist that ever lived, I am the first ventriloquist in the world!

Ah, you wouldn't be bored with me! I have more than one trick up my sleeve, not counting card tricks. . . . But you'd have fun with me! There's no one like me. . . there's no like me, for example, when it come to ventriloquism.

Di Stefano was manufactured on earth, Pele was made in heaven.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. The Devil's Disciple, Act II

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

By a peculiar thermometric adjustment, when a woman's talent is at zero, journalistic approbation is at the boiling pitch; when she attains mediocrity, it is already at no more than summer heat; and if ever she reaches excellence, critical enthusiasm drops to the freezing point.

Genius consisting neither in self-conceit nor in humilty, but in a power to making or do, not anything in general, but something in particular.

One must use such brains as are to be found

No sooner does a woman show that she has genius or effective talent, than she receives the tribute of being moderately praised and severely criticised.

Women are both talented and innovative thinkers and tend to use computer science as a tool to solve larger problems.

Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.