Quotes About Talent

Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.

I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role.

This league has great players, and it has great images. Sometimes those two things get confused.

Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work.

You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.

When we lay something out and the talent goes out there, I'm part of the creative process of helping putting things together maybe putting things in different places. When they go out there and execute it even better than I have it imagined in my head, it is just a great feeling.

I'm hard to imitate because I'm not gifted enough.

Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

I've never considered myself an actor; I get much more immediate satisfaction singing. If you sing good, people clap. On television, you never know whether you've done well or not.

My first Hindi film as a leading man was Mahesh Bhatt's 'Saaransh,' which immediately established me as someone who knows the craft.

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

I love watching Billy Bob, just as a punter anyway. I like his work. But working with him is really easy and really straight-forward. He's immediately good. He doesn't have to work up to it. He doesn't make your life difficult. He listens. He's a very good listener, in terms of his acting.

I've been lucky to be part of very good teams and to play with immense players.

Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills.

I'm looking to immerse myself more in the entertainment community and possibly get into doing some acting. Music is my first love, what I was most naturally drawn to and choose to study. Getting into the acting world is like a new exciting challenge.

When I was like 19 1/2, people were like, 'He should go back to Europe.' People are impatient.

Choosing players in any sport is an imperfect science.

I'm not really an impersonator.

I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.

I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.

I think the biggest backhanded criticism-compliment I get is that I'm 'good at communicating.' Which implies that you're bad at doing.

I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.

The memories obviously of playing with Maradona are fantastic memories, he's probably the most important part of my career.