Quotes About Talent

I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work.

You should see me work my magic in leather" Ranger

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that.

We want to be proud of our work and make sure it's worth the talent of the animators, who spent four years of their love, sweat and tears on it.

I should have had more faith in my talent. I think I would have gotten to achieve more, earlier, had I believed in myself. But I let other people take credit for my work.

Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you can work toward.

It's something I worry about when I'm working out. I don't want to get too fit. Because I don't want the new DaVinci of this Millennium to say, "You. I have found my muse. I have to sculpt you."

That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

We will employ almost every strategy and hustle in any possible way to recruit top engineers to our team.

Mine's a pretty simple strategy: there's not a lot of talent here, but there's a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy.

As the leader, you're empowering talent. Once you've given the direction, it's a joy to see it put into action, to see people on every level of the company carrying out the strategy.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.

We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.

My football comes from the streets.

When I am in Korea, I can't walk down the streets. But I don't want to be famous or popular; I just want to be a good player.

At the end of the day, I was listening to the big homies and they were saying, 'Yo, man, you got talent, man, stay off the streets.'

I was always playing on the streets with my friends until I was 15 or 16 and I wanted to do things with my skills that were exciting.

Everyone has their special strength. And my strength is to have the ball and start good things with it.