Quotes About Talent

I consider myself an articulate actor, and I don't consider myself a second-tier actor.

I'm very lucky that I can walk on the stage before anyone in the world. And that's the thing: you've got to be pretty confident to go on after me. You've got to have the artillery, as I call it. And the artillery is your songs.

I'm an artist at heart.

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

Once you are accepted as a star, as a good artiste, nothing else matters.

I have worked with National award-winning artiste Upendra Limaye in a film and he is a fantastic actor.

I think it's great when girls are artistic.

I don't have actors in my family, but everyone is pretty artistic.

My mom was heavily in the arts; my entire family, they're all musicians and draw. They have much more artistic talent than me!

Filipinos are naturally creative and artistic.

I thought it was so cool that all you knew about Prince was about his artistry and music.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

opinions do not give talent, they always spoil what talent there is; and the poor fellow whom you have just seen is a proof thereof. An artist's opinion ought to be: Faith in his art, in his work; and his only way of success is toil when nature has given him the sacred fire.

Today, talent needs the kind of luck that favors the incompetent; in fact, if a skilled man rejects the vile arrangements that bring success to rampant mediocrity, he will never get on at all.

Tout écrivain porte en son coeur un monstre qui, semblable au taenia dans l'estomac, y dévore les sentiments à mesure qu'ils y éclosent. Qui triomphera ? la maladie de l'homme, ou l'homme de la maladie ? Certes, il faut être un grand homme pour tenir la balance entre son génie et son caractère. Le talent grandit, le coeur se dessèche. A moins d'être un colosse, à moins d'avoir des épaules d'Hercule, on reste ou sans coeur ou sans talent. Vous

The glory of a surgeon is like that of an actor: they live only so long as they are alive, and their talent leaves no trace when they are gone. Actors and surgeons, like great singers too, like the executants who by their performance increase the power of music tenfold, are all the heroes of a moment.

Corruption is powerful in the world: talent is scarce. So corruption is the instrument of swarming mediocrity, and you will feel its point everywhere. You will see wives whose husbands have six thousand francs a year, all told, spend more than ten thousand on a dress. You will see officials with a salary of twelve hundred francs buy estates.

Talent in men is therefore, in all moral points, very much what beauty is in women, — simply a promise. Let us, therefore, doubly admire the man in whom both heart and character equal the perfection of his genius.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent

It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.