Quotes About Talent

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

The songwriting community in Nashville really is all about your talent. It's not about your image, and you have to be humble. You have to be kind. You have to have zero ego when you walk into that writing room.

'The Producers' is my favorite movie, and my favorite performances of all time are Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, and I feel like I strive to be a combination of those two guys.

I really like female singers; I've got zero interest in working with male singers. Any male voice I need to do, I can do.

In a given year, there may be two or three NFL-ready quarterbacks at the college level. In another year, there literally may be zero.

People ask if I would do the TT myself - the actual romance of doing it is in me but the chances are zero. I can't belittle the talent and the bravery and the endurance that goes into a race like this. The competitors are some of the bravest men on the planet and it is one of the biggest challenges a racer can take on.

Regardless of zip code, talent and IQ are evenly distributed, so we need to make sure that opportunity is evenly distributed, too.

The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.

I'm all about competition; still am to this day. That's how you should be, but not with any malice. From Mike Will Made It to Boi-1da to Mike Zombie, I'm out to get 'em all and it's that friendly competition that keeps us all on our toes.

I have always known I had talent, LOL, but to be called a 'talent' feels a little strange - but well within my comfort zone!

So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.

I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

I am moving towards that zone where I don't want to be a replaceable name. This is my goal. I want to hear from the industry that, 'You are the only one who can do this. We will not go ahead with the project if you don't do this.' And I want to hear from the audience that it is worth watching a film that I have done.

It's an exciting thing to build a relationship with a talent that's outside of your comfort zone.

I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.

I want to be active. I want to be able to show everything I can do. I can blitz. I can cover. I can play zone and play man. I can do it all.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.

We all have music inside us, and can learn how to get it out, one way or another.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.