Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
Sidney Sheldon

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.
Kevyn Aucoin

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
Francoise Sagan

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
Camille Paglia

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
Antonio Tabucchi

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
Italo Calvino

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.
William Christopher Handy

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.
Brian Eno

I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.
Vin Diesel

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
Pearl Bailey

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
Frederick William Faber

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.
Tom Brady

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.
John Irving

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.
Howard Stern

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
Alan Rickman

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.
Maureen O'Hara

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
Alan Shepard

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.
Alan Shepard

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
Paul Simon

I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.
Roger Ailes