Quotes About Talent

Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well.

I loved 'The Master' a lot. I'm not going to get to work with Daniel Day-Lewis, but Joaquin Phoenix is one of the best around, I think.

In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.

I didn't take that many pictures of The Beatles, but I did photograph them before anybody else knew about them, and that makes me proud. I saw something in them.

I photographed Alek Wek. She was amazing, and nobody knew about her then. It was a really strong photograph of her.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

I never claimed to be a great photographer.

Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

I have a reverence for great photography, but I don't consider myself in that league.

I draw badly. Photography's much easier than drawing.

I gravitated toward photography. That's what I really did well.

When I was young, I felt my talent lay in photography, not movies.

I don't buy into the phrase 'comedy genius.' It's like football; you can have the talent, but 90 per cent is hard work, the other ten per cent is trying to make it all look as natural as possible.

I would love to do a comedy, and I think physical comedy is something I probably have a knack on.

At age 10, I was better at ballet than I think I will ever be at any physical activity for the rest of my life.

I can do something physically the other guy can't. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did.

I've been told I'm bright. But when I act, I get incredibly stupid. I feel my intellect slowing down. I feel it happening physically. And that's not negative in acting!

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

Yes, I was really good in physics and in math.

In high school, I was very good in math and physics. I wasn't good at much of anything else. Some people are good at a lot of things. I don't know how they choose what to do.

A great physique and a good performance make for a delicious combination.