Quotes About Talent

It's no surprise to me or the other Isley brothers that I can sing, because I used to sing all the time in practice. The surprise is that somebody else likes it.

Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.

I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time

The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it.

The first time I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov it was like he had an anti-gravity machine in his pants. He would jump and stay in the air for 10 minutes.

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.

Cool people still have a hard time showing what they got in Hollywood.

I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It's my nature.

If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to.

Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.

If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn't matter - not a problem.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

If Jay spent as much time studying as he does trying to be a comedian, he'd be a big star.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.

I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

[John Hurt] just really gifted, and I had a great time working with him and [am] very lucky to have worked with him.

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.

You think and it's done, It's a luck not a talent.

So, each of us has a special gift and it takes time to discover it

If self-employment is the opposite of employed-by-other, than a job is outsourcing your freedom (time and talent) to a boss.

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.