Talent quotes

“I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.”
Terry Jones

“Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them.”
Sam Mendes

“If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress.”
Richard Donner

“There only two important things in living - finding out what you do well and finding out what makes you happy. And if God is smiling on you, they're both the same thing.”
Héctor Elizondo - Arthur Willis

“He famously was interested in pure cinema, using the image and the sound rather than people just sitting around talking.”
Julian Jarrold On Alfred Hitchcock

“Killing is what I do. It's what I'm good at. I am a titan. A monolith. Nothing can stop me.”
Milla Jovovich - Violet Song Jat Shariff

Dorothy had already done the centerfold, Miss August. She had already done parts in "Fantasy Island" and "Buck Rogers". Things were moving fast for her. I became very fond of her. She was handling her public visibility very well. She was maturing very fast for 19. But, to me, she was just a friend. Understand? Just a friend.
David Clennon - Geb

“- Jezzie Flannigan: What if you do, betray your gift?
- Alex Cross: Then you betray yourself. That's a sad thing.”
Monica Potter - Jezzie Flannigan
Morgan Freeman - Alex Cross

“- Withnail: Monty used to act.
- Monty: Well, I'd hardly say that. It's true, I crept the boards in my youth. But I never really had it in my blood, and that's what's so essential, isn't it, theatrical zeal in the veins. Alas I have little more than vintage wine and memories.”
Richard R. Grant - Withnail
Richard Griffiths - Monty

“- Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: You're better with your feet than you are with your broom.
- Ray Bolger: I wish you'd give me a chance. I've got talent, and I'd like to get away from shifting scenery and moving props.”
William Powell - Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Ray Bolger - Ray Bolger

“Nobody teaches a writer anything. You tell'em what you know. You tell'em to find their voice and stay with it. You tell the ones that have it to keep at it. You tell the ones that don't have it to keep at it too because that's the only way they're gonna get to where they're going.”
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“This is the time to show them everything. There'll be a bow. Make sure you use it. Peeta, you make sure to show your strength.”

Woody Harrelson - Haymitch Abernathy

“- Rollins: Born with all the gifts, but you just gave up. Oh yeah, I'd say you owe plenty. If you ever plan on giving anything back, you better start right now. You can't do anything about your mom or Nutso, but you can about Kyle. It's all there for him, Shep, and he's blowing it.
- Shep: Well, he won't be the first.”
David Bailey - Rollins
Leon - Shep

“Michael Jordan plays ball. Charles Manson kills people. I talk. Everyone has a talent.”
Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor

“You've got a record like a roll of toilet paper. AWOL, desertion of post, striking an NCO, refusing to take orders, drunk on duty, assaulting a superior officer, resulting in his death. And yet you managed to get yourself the Silver Star, Purple Heart, Bronze Star. You've got a lot of talent. You just don't know how to use it. But I do.”

Lee Marvin - Maj. John Reisman

“- Jack Wyatt: I'm a tool?
- Ritchie: Yeah, but a good tool. Like a jack-saw!”

Will Ferrell - Jack Wyatt
Jason Schwartzman - Ritchie

“Come on guys, it's not that hard. Most people die without discovering their own genius, without expressing the uniqueness that makes them special.”
John Livingston - Mr. Parks

“You do what you are. You're born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you're good at, you don't take for granted. You don't betray it.”

Morgan Freeman - Alex Cross

“- Larry Johnson: Y'know, maybe there is nothin' wrong with us, maybe it's just in our heads.
- Muggsy Bogues: Yeah, we're all right. It's just some psychosomatic deal, or something to do with the alignment of the Moon or another planet.”

Larry Johnson - Himself
Tyrone Bogues - Muggsy Bogues

“It is good to see what someone with real talent can do when great opportunities are given to them.”
Jim Carrey - Bruce Nolan

“- Napoleon Dynamite: I don't even have any good skills.
- Pedro: What do you mean?
- Napoleon Dynamite: You know, like numchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills... Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!”
Jon Heder - Napoleon Dynamite
Efren Ramirez - Pedro

“- Wagner: What'd you order this stuff for? You don't look like the painting type to me.
- Charley Butts: You wouldn't know talent if it looked you in the face.
- Wagner: Well I'm looking you in the face and I don't see jack shit.”
David Cryer - Wagner
Larry Hankin - Charley Butts

“Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere.”
Peter O'Toole - Anton Ego

“I call it a gift, for them it was more like a big cosmic joke.”

Lois Smith - Dr. Iris Hineman

“Don't beat him, kick his ass!”