Quotes About Talent

As a child, I was mischievous and an attention-seeker, so acting came naturally to me.

I don't overact, so people think that I naturally act well. I underplay my roles, and that has worked for me.

I have always loved writing as it comes very naturally to me.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

For me, that's natural. The instinct to score comes naturally and if you have it, you've got to go to it.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

Music is what I do naturally.

I started playing basketball when I was about three years old. After that, everything else just came naturally. I had older cousins that used to let me hang with them, so I got my toughness from them.

Oh, I am not naturally gifted in dancing in any way! Stupidly, I didn't go to those classes in drama school. I was like, 'I don't need that; I'll never be dancing in anything.'

I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it.

Fencing and shooting kind of came naturally. From the start, I knew that I had it in me.

I feel like I was always singing. Since I could speak, I could sing. It came very naturally. In school, I was always singing in choruses and choirs. I always loved to sing; it was something to fun to do.

I sang barber shop harmony and sort of got into performing. And it just came naturally. Then, when I was in college after the war, I did a play, 'Pygmalion,' by George Bernard Shaw. And from then on, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

The right stuff' on this level, he says, is some combination of these four qualities: talent, durability, determination, and courage.

she saw her husband for the first time: she had married a child whose only talent was an air of engaging helplessness by which he got the protection of certain goodhearted people—

How do you manage to turn everything to your advantage?" His hand found the bare skin of her satin-smooth thigh, reveling in all that warm heat. "I do not know the answer to that, little one. Perhaps it is sheer talent.

Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.

Success in America doesn't require any special talent or any kind of extra effort. You just have to be consistent and not fuck up. That's how most people fail. They can't stand the pressure of getting what they want, so when they see that they are getting close they engineer some sort of fuckup to undermine their success.

Josh," I said in a harsh whisper, "that kid is as dumb as a stick." "He's not dumb, Biff, he just has a talent for belief." "Fine," I said, turning to Philip. "Don't let the kid anywhere near the money.

While the rest of the band was being a storm, she was the sun busting through thick, gray clouds. With the first thing she sang, you had to wonder why this band was called Herman E. Calloway and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression, or Herman E. Calloway and the Nubian Knights, it should be called Miss Thomas and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression and a Mean Old Guy on the Giant Fiddle.