Quotes About Talent

The more 'A' side cricket that can be played, it will keep the fringe of international cricket interested.

There are not many musicians from India who are working internationally in pop. My aim is to change that and show the world that we have so much more to offer.

My talent before singing is being able to interpret and understand my emotions. I've felt pain and felt it intensely, so every time I sing, I revisit it.

An actor's got a serious duty to perform. God's given him the gift to interpret his creatures. He has to do that honestly and conscientiously.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

I'm an interpreter of music.

There was an interview that I actually listened to with John Cena where he says that he is an elite-level athlete - he is elite, and he needs to make people elite whenever he goes up against them - but I was like, gosh, as much as I hate to give him credit where credit is due, it is exactly right.

Helena Bonham Carter was 19 when we made 'A Room with a View'. She came for the interview in these extraordinary boots and a black dress, and sat with her feet out in front of her.

Sunrise, it was revealed, could learn any song after hearing it once. In fact, she could just sort of imagine how a song would go. It was shocking each time she was right; it was shocking in the way that certain musicians just plunk out the melodies, chords, and all, and can't even read music, never "learned," just know.

It's a testament to [Joan Blondell]'s talent that she is so fondly remembered even though so few of her films were even adequate. Her Warners cohorts were given classics while Joan remained the reliable backup in unremarkable films badly needing her gifts.

During her lifetime, Marilyn Monroe was underrated as a dramatic actress, and this rightly rankled her—but she was also overrated as a comedienne.

Barbara Stanwyck, in particular, was peerless in everything from high and low comedy to drama to musicals to film noir. She never took a false step.

Joan Blondell] biographer, Matthew Kennedy, quotes her as admitting, "If I had taken myself more seriously . . . if I had fought for better roles as, say, Bette Davis did . . . I think I might have been a damned good dramatic actress. But it was just my way; I don't think I ever had the security of feeling confident in myself, really, ever. I used to think, 'I'm just lucky to be here!

Calling Billie Burke a "character actress" is like calling the Grand Canyon "quite a slice." Though she's best known for dithering supporting roles in such films as The Wizard of Oz, Topper and Dinner at Eight, Billie was a stage star, silent movie star, and a brilliant dramatic actress as well. Her comic talent was only the tip of the iceberg.

Not many performers are equally at home in drama and comedy; Claudette Colbert was one of those few. It's hard to decide whether she was more brilliant in screwball comedies like It Happened One Night, The Palm Beach Story and Midnight, or tragedies like Imitation of Life and So Proudly We Hail! The most modern of actresses, she was also one of the most talented.

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren`t as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self–esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough. Pride is ugly.

Could you", wrote Mr. Jefferson, "Find me a gardener Who can play the french horn?

Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

There's bound to be a job for a good cook somewhere. There aren't that many of us about, you know,' she informed them seriously.

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.