I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who's been successful at another college program, they're going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.
I realised I've got quite a talent for coming up with ideas for design. I've got so many ideas about fashion.
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.
The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means it's going to be harder for young talent to get discovered.
It's easy to put on a Deep Purple record and say, 'That sounds great.' But why? Part of it is individual practice, but by playing together, a talent of meshing happens.
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.
I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.
I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
Many Czech people are very talented. They can do many things, but when they get to a certain level, they are satisfied. I am not like that, thank God.
