Quotes About Talent

Broadcasting is a brutal, often unfair business, where looks are valued more than skill.

So many land mines in this new territory called adulthood. Talent has a window. Freedom sometimes becomes a trap. We may die before we finish our dreams. Acutally, that we die is a pretty big surprise by itself. We can't spend innocence without accounting. Relationships are contracts. We partner not just for love but because we become too weak to make it alone.

There's no good reason to change a Neil Simon line. The day that I'm funnier than Neil Simon, Hell will be a very chilly place.

On one memorable occasion Vronsky played all the parts in an abridged version of Anna Karenina when the rest of the cast were on strike for more blinis.

Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itself contributed to liquidating. It only resurrects ghosts, and it itself is lost therein.

The knack is art.

Learning is borrowed knowledge; genius is knowledge innate.

They were soft-centered, emotional beings wrapped in a terrified carapace, that even though they might appear rational and collected on paper, so focused that you wanted to marvel at their promise and maturity, they were lurching, turbulent muddles of conflict in their three-dimensional lives...the creative ones were desperately afraid they were talentless, and the intellectuals deeply suspected they weren't brilliant, and that every single one of them felt ugly and stupid and utterly fake.

La mano y la vista hacen al artista.

Being a great poet doesn't always mean that you write great poetry.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

aunque nazca uno con algún talento, el arte de escribir no se aprende repentinamente. Remití

me repetía este proverbio provinciano, algo menos exacto en París, que el que bien canta y bien danza trabaja mucho y no avanza.

mi trabajo desigual y sin arte tan pronto era sublime como trivial, como debe serio el de cualquiera que sólo posee arranques de genio y no se halla sostenido por la ciencia.

He examinado -dice- a los poetas y los miro como personas cuyo talento impone a las demás y a ellas mismas, que se las dan de sabias, a las que se tiene por tales, cuando tienen menos de eso que de ninguna otra cosa. De los poetas -continúa Sócrates- he

However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean-Jaeques Rousseau

I want to try to figure out what I'm supposed to do, what I might be good at. I really want to be good at something, to feel passionate about it.

I want to I might be good at. I really want to be good at something, to feel passionate about it.

I never met a kid I couldn't teach. Every kid was good at something, and the trick was to find out what it was, then use it to teach him everything else. It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the next day.

Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.

To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift.

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

In a pinch, I could always get work in pictures as a makeup artist.