Talent Quotes · Page 101

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

— Warren Beatty

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

— Barry Mann

I'm a player that's never been blessed with an enormous amount of talent, speed, tricks.

— Joey Barton

Dancing is not one of my talents. But when you've had a few drinks anyone is a good dancer, right?

— Richard Madden

Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.

— Norman Granz

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

— Susanna Kaysen

Miyazaki has a great talent, but I really struggle every time I create a new film and am far from Miyazaki.

— Makoto Shinkai

I tried to just rely on my talent years ago and ended up losing a couple of fights because of that.

— Paddy Pimblett

One thing I can say about the Dallas Cowboys: They have always had talent around them. They have been one of the…

— Emmitt Smith

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some…

— David Cassidy

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation…

— Anonymous

I think about Ellen DeGeneres, seeing her every single day on a show. Her identity is there every day, but what leads…

— Janet Mock

You know, John Wall and Vick are very similar. I'm not disputing their talent. I mean, Michael Vick and John Wall are…

— Colin Cowherd

I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and…

— Scott Bakula

I wanted to bat for the England cricket team. I was quite good at cricket. But then I kept getting out for…

— Michael McIntyre

Some have natural talent, while others make up for it with tremendous heart and determination, and its almost always the latter group…

— Melchor Lim

Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in…

— Chuck Palahniuk

In The Federalist, James Madison called the rage for equality 'a wicked project.' People differ and rewards differ-that's the essence of both…

— Michael Novak

The astronauts put their lives at risk to help other people. There's a strength of belief in a person like that that…

— Rudy Giuliani

I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents. All of the rest of…

— Lynne Stewart

Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know.…

— Diane Setterfield

In diminishing the role of the worker's body in the labor process, industrial technology has also tended to diminish the importance of…

— Shoshana Zuboff

Everyman has a God-given talent for it is inborn and its a very powerful gift that raises a man far above his…

— Samule Kermis

Somewhere out there are a few men with more innate talent at golf than Jack Nicklaus, or women with greater ability at…

— Donald Trump

London's top colleges attract the best young talent from around the world; they're truly a national asset.

— Munira Mirza

I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.

— David Letterman

Everybody is blessed with a certain talent, you have to know what your talent is maximize it and push it to the…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

Messi is a natural born talent, that is not to say he doesn’t work hard, but you can’t teach what he can…

— Deco

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

— Martin Ritt

Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.

— Robert Collier

Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.

— Anonymous

My talent is universal, and acting is a craft that can be used anywhere, unless ethnicity comes into play, and then, looks…

— Parvathy

Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.

— Brock Pierce

It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.

— Keren Woodward

Being good at something is not someone's fault. It's merely a gift. Gifts should be cherished, not envied and put down.

— Anonymous

Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.

— Steve Denning

Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better

— Iyanla Vanzant

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

— David Foster Wallace

An award recognizing your talent is an honor. That matters a lot to me.

— Payal Rohatgi

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

— Daryl Hall