Talent quotes

“To succeed in polite society, a young woman must be many things. Kind... well-read... and accomplished. But to survive in the world as we know it, you'll need... other qualities.”
Lily James - Elizabeth Bennet

“Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality.”
Walter Matthau

“Difficult? Yes. But she was a wonderful comedienne and she had a charisma like no-one before or since. She wasn’t that enormously talented, but her gift was knowing how to use the special kind of talent she had to great advantage.”
Jack Lemmon On Marilyn Monroe

“If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.”
Jackie Gleason

“I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.”
Glenn Ford

“A remarkable talent but a monster of a man.”
Marlon Brando On Sir Charlie Chaplin

“- Linda Brown: People here are a little strange.
- Lenny Brown: Talented people usually area little strange... they were allon something; money's the real drug around here, okay?”
Sean Young - Linda Brown
James Woods - Lenny Brown

“Maybe show business is getting to be a lost art. It used to be if a kid was hit at the theater when they had 'amateur night', a scout would see hima nd get him a break in burlesque, or in a medicine show, or the circus. Then if they had what it took he'd latch on in vaudeville. Finally maybe he'd be ready for Broadway in a musical for Ziegfeld...” (continue)(continue reading)
Al Jolson

“You know how they say the dead watch over the living? I've thought about that a lot. Not just because Lewis was a medium. I don't know what that means. For me, he was someone deeply intuitive of others. He, uh... understood things that went unspoken. He did. Maybe because he knew he was going to die. I mean, I felt that he saw things which I...” (continue)(continue reading)

Anders Danielsen Lie - Erwin

“My mother always wanted to be a witch. But she didn't have the gift. It's not that I want to be the best. I'm just so tired of being the worst.”
Fairuza Balk - Mildred Hubble

“You don't become a rock star for no reason.”
Kim Kardashian

“So many charlatans all use my talents for ill-gotten gain.”
Graham Stark - Professor Auguste Balls

“Hey, town's looking real good. We almost finished what Ma started. Those two are good, they'll fit perfectly. What I tell ya, huh? Ain't your work more real now? Ma would be proud, yeah, she'd be real proud. She always said your talent would make up for what God took away from you.”

Brian Van Holt - Bo

“- Will: Is there anything she can't do?
- Matt: She can't sing. Not a note. Sounds like a coyote in a trash compactor.”

A.J. Buckley - Will
Derek Hamilton - Matt

“Am I a better singer or actor? Why do people ask me that? I'm a wonderful singer! As an actor, well, judge for yourself — just don't tell me about it if you don't think I'm very good.”
Dean Martin

“No one else can do what I can do. In any medium. That's what I call talent.”
Jackie Gleason

“You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.”
Jacqueline Bisset

“I like the fact that Chris Rock is one of the best stand ups ever and still is a really good actor. And a great professional and a good friend and a wonderful human being.”
Dennis Dugan On Chris Rock

When I first arrived in Hollywood, I met a studio executive who said, "Loved your work, Joe". When I asked what he had seen me in, he said, "Nothing".
Joseph Fiennes

“What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.”
Sammy Davis Jr.

“You know what, Winnie? I've learned that a lot of talented people come out of the ghetto.”
Rihanna - Herself

“What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. ”
Buddy Hackett

“The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.”
Garson Kanin

“A big talent steals, a small talent borrows.”
Anthony Quinn

“Cuz it's real difficult in life to get things the way you want them. When I'm writing it's easy. But there's a fly in the ointment. I have no... talent.”
Kevin Corrigan - JJ Lask