Quotes About Talent

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.

People know if you've got the goods, if you're easy to work with, and if you can get the job done.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world.

Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody.

I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.

Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.

As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

I think you're born with style, but you have to develop it. You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.

I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work

I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

If you listen to Howard Stern, go back and listen to Lenny Bruce, so you can hear what real talent is.