Quotes About Talent

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

Brandon Rush is not just one of the best freshmen in the league, he's one of the best players.

I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing.

To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer.

I would have loved to do romantic comedies. That's what I think I would be best at.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.

If all else fails, I could go to a train station and open up my saxophone case and make some bucks. I can do "Mary Had A Little Lamb," I can do "Happy Birthday."

As you train and as you develop your talents, you do get better, hopefully, or you get out of the business.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.