No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
A man should never be judged by his skill, talent, colour, financial or political status, facial beauty and level of education but by the quality of his character.
I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players.
There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.
Radio for years and years looked at the same pool of talent. I always believed there were other people in the world that could do radio shows.
In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.
If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.
If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.
Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
It's easy to criticizing or assuming people's talent what really they're,then you're still outside, step in, take a chance and explore them.
I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.
I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me.
