talent Quotes

Growing up, my inspirations were Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, all these martial arts legends. I wanted to express my talent on screen in a certain way. I felt that it made me a little different.

Talent in the intimate sphere is an asset that quickly depreciates without other advantages.

The body\'s special talent: knowing for sure that you will be broken tomorrow, even before you start to fall asleep today.

I submitted videos and applications to talent agencies and TV shows; I drove to Vegas and visited agents. I was on \'America\'s Got Talent\'; I played for free at venues in attempts to be \'found\' and yet all the experts in the entertainment industry told me that what I did was not marketable and that I had to join a group or do more traditional music.

YouTube did more for me than \'America\'s Got Talent.\'

Maker is extremely proactive and creative with their talent. They seem to have mastered the difficult task of giving attention to their smaller, growing channels while still being able to add value to their larger established channels - plus, with this partnership, I am one step closer to becoming a Disney princess!

Puerto Rico\'s relationship with music is everything. It\'s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

The only show I ever really wanted to do was \'SNL.\' It was some sort of merging of my talent and my metabolism. It suited who I am and what I do really well, though whatever I was thinking it was, it kept mutating and growing. At first, I didn\'t even know that the cast would be the thing everybody talked about. We thought it would be the hosts.

The main thing in an actor is talent, and in a director - ambition.

Quantity never compensates for talent.

Regardless of the perception that the talent may have or the Superstars may have, WWE\'s business model is \'give the fans what they want.\'

Britain has enormous amount of talent, as we\'ve seen from the BAFTAs. It\'s all here, and it has to be allowed to flourish.

Archer has an incredible talent. He is one of those fast bowlers who makes it look easy.

I\'m lucky to have met Nicolas Ghesquiere, the creative director of Vuitton. He understands me and knows me, and I admire his sensibility and talent. Karl Lagerfeld is another huge designer and artist for whom I feel affection and admiration.

He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.

I\'m just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the guy who has limited talent but is pretending he\'s a genius.

For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living in a modern capitalist society. It\'s not so much evidence of a meritocracy, as evidence of healthy nepotism. Nepotism is at the core of a good group dynamic. A good group dynamic is at the core of rock\'n\'roll.

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

There are no grey areas with commitment, you\'re either in or you are out; 95 per cent doesn\'t work. I didn\'t have that much talent as a kid, but I worked at it, all hours known to man.

Until I am satisfied TA is committed to funding the development of junior Australian talent, including my sister Sara, on a non-discriminatory basis, I do not believe there is any point in meeting.

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don\'t know how long she\'ll run away from it, but it\'s there in her.

Talent is important but it is not the key point.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He\'s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball\'s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I\'ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Musical talent is not just a gift but a complex interplay of biology, environment, and the inexorable pull of sound on the human psyche.

Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.

Talent is being amazed when one rereads one\'s own texts.