Quotes About Talent

When you're good at something, there's always someone to spit on you.

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

There are many singers who in spite of not making big in the industry are doing numerous shows and earning a lot of money.

Many talented actors have come into this industry and, in spite of their best efforts, haven't been able to win over the audience.

I always wanted to be an actor, so part of me is split between the artistic side and the physical side, but then physically I was just born as quite a healthy specimen!

There's more to playing the guitar than being able to split your legs.

In my senior year of high school, I was doing a dance with a bunch of friends for the talent show, and my pants split entirely in half. It was incredible.

I can sing, I can act, my physical comedy is on point. I can do the splits.

I can still do the splits on cars, but... nothing else!

I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.

I have worked with a lot of great artists, including some of my heroes like Michael Golden, George Perez, and Jose Garcia Lopez, just to name a couple. I have been spoiled.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with languages.

'Shaadi... ' made people see me as an actor. A lot of filmmakers called and said I was really good in the film... People from the industry - who never spoke to me, didn't think I was a great actor because they hadn't seen my work - said I can act.

My work has spoken for itself, and I've been offered work purely on merit.

To watch Lin Manuel Miranda... you could not make a better spokesperson for Broadway in a laboratory.

They say you have to be good to be lucky, but I think you have to be lucky to be good.

Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.

Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto'o, two fantastic African footballers. So successful. And very nice characters as well. I got the luck to know them personally. They helped me a lot.

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.