Talent quotes

“Kurosawa never affected me directly in terms of my own movie-making because I never would have presumed that I was capable of that perception and that vision.”
Sidney Lumet On Akira Kurosawa

“Your talent is in your choice.”
Stella Adler

“Can I tell you a secret? I think you might be a songwriter. And don't worry, I won't tell anybody. But I'm not very good at keeping secrets.”

Bradley Cooper - Jack

“Do they train you to be this vague, or is it a gift?”

Marie Matiko - Julia Fang

“- Seals’ Admiral Burns: It’s rumored, Amanda, that some of them have abilities.
- Amanda Waller: Oh, yeah. I have seen things. Maybe Superman was some kind of beacon for them to creep back from the shadows.”
Michael Murray Scratch - Seals’ Admiral Burns
Viola Davis - Amanda Waller

“- Aldous Snow: Maybe you can have Rachel and Sarah, they got along alright at dinner.
- Peter Bretter: I'm not that kind of guy and even if I was I don't think I have the sexual competency to pull that off.
- Aldous Snow: Yeah its a gift.”
Russell Brand - Aldous Snow
Jason Segel - Peter Bretter

“- Ace - Hollywood Chicken Little: Are you ready to rock?
- Hollywood Runt: Ain't no mountain high enough. Ain't no valley low.”
Adam West - Ace - Hollywood Chicken Little
Mark Kennedy - Hollywood Runt

“- Nate Nash: You were dancing for them because they were letting you I mean, you see it now, right? You belong to them pretty much your whole life. So, Dominika, work with me. Make this something that you own for the first time in your life. And make them, make them fucking pay.
- Dominika Egorova: What is it you want from me?
- Nate Nash:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joel Edgerton - Nate Nash
Jennifer Lawrence - Dominika Egorova

“- Mr. Darcy: [getting dressed after the inspection] How are you able to discern that the wound from my rib was from fencing?
- Priest: I've been at this a long time, my son.
- Mr. Darcy: [skeptical, as he walks away] I have no wound.”
Sam Riley - Colonel Fitzwilliam Darcy
Jonathan Oliver - Priest

“It takes talent to make money. It takes brains to keep money.”
Denzel Washington - Robert McCall

“It's not about how badly you want something. It's about what you are capable of!”
Idris Elba - Chief Bogo

“You have a gift, you know how to survive. This is what you were meant to do.”

Matthias Schoenaerts - Vanya Egorov

What? Act? Did anyone care if Marilyn Monroe could act? All they cared was, "Was she in focus?".
George Wendt - Film Producer

“- President's Daughter: Well, Juni! I must say, you're a man of many talents!
- Juni Cortez: One tries.”
Taylor Momsen - President's Daughter
Daryl Sabara - Juni Cortez

“- Shane: What is it with you, Ford? Everywhere you go, everything turns to hell.
- Ford: It's a talent I have.”
Monet Mazur - Shane
Martin Henderson - Ford

“Here's what you guys are good at: working out, eating five hot meals a day. What you're not so good at, is doing what you're told.”

David Costabile - Bob

“The best actors do not let the wheels show. This is the hardest kind of acting, and it works only if you look as if you are not acting at all.”
Henry Fonda

“Ten years ago I thought that talent equals accomplishment. You're allowed to accomplish something because you're talented, I thought. In fact, however, accomplishment equals a roll of the dice.”
Sondra Locke

“I believe that God felt sorry for actors, so He created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

“Spence is the best we have, because you don't see the mechanism working.”
Humphrey Bogart On Spencer Tracy

“My talent falls within definite limits. I'm not a versatile actress.”
Greta Garbo

“- Matilda: Take that, porkers!
- [She shot a fireball to kill the pigs]
- Red: Well, how about that? She can shoot fireballs out of her butt.”
Maya Rudolph - Matilda
Jason Sudeikis - Red

“Let me tell you what I see here: a lot of raw talent. Swagger. Bravado. People are scared of you guys. They think you're dangerous, but the world needs to hear it.”
Paul Giamatti - Jerry Heller

“- Jim Trotter III: Ms. Vito, what is your current profession?
- Mona Lisa Vito: I'm an out-of-work hairdresser.
- Jim Trotter III: An out-of-work hairdresser. In what way does that qualify you as an expert in automobiles?
- Mona Lisa Vito: It doesn't.”
Lane Smith - Jim Trotter III
Marisa Tomei - Mona Lisa Vito

“There's only one way to get into pictures if you have as little talent as I have: you have to know somebody.”
Don Siegel