Talent Quotes - Page 33

• All singers, no matter how gifted, should always try to go improve. And all students begin in the same place despite the level of their talent. It's like bodybuilding: All people who train use similar exercises no matter how naturally physically endowed a person may be. I have worked with many of the most brilliant singers in modern music and it's always the case that they have a great deal of under-realized potential no matter how amazing their abilities.

  Gary Catona

  Exercise, Bodybuilding, People

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. So people may choose to explore their other talents.

  Rebecca Hall

  Thinking, People, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The good thing about this Casino Royale thing, that I hope and pray, is that I'll have more opportunities. That roles will come up to me rather than going to the auditions. But I still have a lot of things to prove. I haven't, I think, shown all my talent.

  Eva Green

  Opportunity, Thinking, Praying

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think what's happening is companies are trying to maximize shareholder value and I think they realized that if they could hire more effectively, they would. What I'm suggesting, though, is that human resources departments in most companies have become so detached - have become such a bureaucracy - that they have become clueless. They don't realize that the processes they have put in place have very little to do with recruiting, retaining and bringing on talent.

  Nick Corcodilos

  Clueless, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you've got the money, you need people to make money with your money. And if you have the talent, you can always merchandise your talent to someone who's got the money and make money. There's two pieces to it: talent and money.

  Barbara Corcoran

  People, Making Money

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Kafka was certainly one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, but he did not find his way to his own style until the age of nearly 30, so rather late. The disciplined immersion in unconscious psychical material is something he also learned only after long years of practice. When he succeeded in doing it for the first time - in the story The Judgement - it put him in a euphoric mood. He wanted to experience this again and again; the act of creation made him happy and proud.

  Reiner Stach

  Long, Judgement, Style

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My problem is, whether it's for emotion or for the talents that a character has to have in a role, I find it very difficult to not take on a challenge. I need to say, "Okay, enough, take the easy road." But the easy road for me is not - it might just come out coincidentally. I wouldn't ever choose a movie because it's easy. I might choose a movie because I feel like being funny, or I feel like being able to do something that is perhaps dramatic, but to a lesser degree. Because I like switching it up, basically, not because I would take the easier road.

  Gerard Butler

  Character, Challenges, Emotion

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• England is an incredible breeding ground for talent, yet it finds it really hard to sustain it or keep it. Once you obtain any kind of success or you step off the island, your ambitions become bigger.

  Eugene Souleiman

  Ambition, Kind, Incredibles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We learned out craft. Acting is a craft and you must learn it. I see a lot of talent today in the kids but they don't know how to work. They don't know the craft of acting and you can only get that on the stage in theater. You cannot learn how to act in movies or in television.

  Jack Klugman

  Kids, Acting, Today

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Talent isn't really enough to make it in any world. If you're trying to be a superstar, or at the highest rate of fame, you have to have personality too. You have to be a well-rounded person. It takes way more than talent nowadays.

  D-Pryde

  Personality, Trying, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

  Georg Baselitz

  Painter

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• Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a painter. I never had that extreme talent.

  Georg Baselitz

  My Sister, Painter, Seducing

  "Georg Baselitz Is a Sexist Grump". SPIEGEL Interview, hyperallergic.com. January 30, 2013.

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• I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents. All of the rest of us, we have smears and stains, but they're helpless. I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child. I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens. Other than that, I represented everybody who came by.

  Lynne Stewart

  Hurt, Children, Acting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My fear of drama school is that the natural extraordinary but eccentric talent sometimes can't find its place in a drama school. And often that's the greatest talent. And it very much depends on the drama school and how it's run and the teachers. It's a different thing here in America as well because so many of your great actors go to class, which is sort of we don't do in England.

  Helen Mirren

  Running, Teacher, Drama

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• We are all living longer lives now, so this extra longevity gives us second, third or fourth chances to succeed at something or change careers. It is great to think big, but the formula for success in our time is also to THINK LONG. There is a huge waste of talent out there because people think they are 'too old' or 'too late'. Actually, if you take the span of productive life from 20 to 80, at 50 you still have 50% of productive years ahead of you.

  Tom Butler-Bowdon

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The problem being: for years I was struggling - first to prove that I had any talent, then to create some skills and finally to fulfil it reasonably. But then once I got there it was, "OK. I did that, but I want to be happy." And that's a whole different deal. It's kind of like a dance. Being active seems to help. I'm 70, so sometimes a little voice is going, "Just take it easy".

  Iggy Pop

  Struggle, Different, Helping

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• When you a young kid at that age at that time, and you know that you got talent as far as hip hop, you wanna be on the radio, that's the first thing. So we was more or less infatuated with just havin' a song on the radio, you know? Before our careers even launched it was more or less about lettin' everybody know, 'Staten Island? You got good emcees there.'

  Raekwon

  Song, Kids, Hip Hop

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When an actor comes to you and starts working with the script, the image of his character that you had in your mind gets substituted with an image of that particular actor. And this is the right way to go. An actor has to be absolutely truthful - this is the only thing required of him, apart from talent of course. It's very easy to understand: you need to absolutely believe in what you see.

  Andrey Zvyagintsev

  Believe, Character, Mind

  Source: deadline.com

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• A great editor is the most valuable thing you can have as an artist because, as you said, sometimes you get too close to something. I think, apart from your talent, that's why you have the career you have - because you have great people behind you.

  Elton John

  Thinking, Artist, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe that the confidence, really being okay with myself, and really being okay with my gift have grown over the years. It just came with time, and it came with getting my feelings hurt, a few times, and realizing to stop performing for people but if perform for God, who gave you the talent, then you can care less about what any casting directors, producers, or what any of them think. You're doing it for a higher purpose. If they don't like it, that's okay! God does.

  Brely Evans

  Hurt, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• Being a creative person is a really personal process so there is no one-size-fits-all advice, that's kind of the first thing I'd say. Because everybody's goals are different. Everybody's talents are different. Some women that I'm talking to want to create a television show. Some women want to be a director. They want to use comedy in different ways, and I find that really fascinating. The main thing I would say is, start! Just do it. Keep going. When people come at you with the negativity and the nos, you've got to ignore it. Push through.

  Elizabeth Banks

  People, Goal, Creative

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• In Yale they convinced me I had no talent, even though I was always working. They cast me mostly as prostitutes and old women, and I stayed because I loved the writers. I loved Chris Durang and Wendy Wasserstein. I was always doing their work in the Yale Cabaret.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Cabaret, Old Woman, Wendy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mother said, "Pack your bags and leave." And my father said, "I've already paid for a year and a half - why don't you stay and get the degree?" And I said, "That's a good idea, because then I can at least run a theater even though I have no talent, and I'll never be an actor." It's my fault that I believed them.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Running, Mother, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is important to have a woman editor. Movie is an industry where it is predominantly women. Male editors might cut out pauses that are interesting, while a woman might not be afraid of that pause. Trying to do a movie with an editor who is not funny is impossible. There are certain talents that go with certain genders.

  Susan Sarandon

  Cutting, Interesting, Important

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• I have been blowing past the majority of my opponents, so people get the impression of me as an attacking, body punching, and brawler type. I do like to put the pressure on, but I have very underrated boxing skills. I have won nine amateur titles. I had 80 amateur fights, and won 76 if them. You do not get that kind of record without having talent. The good thing is I have not really needed all my talent yet. When I get an opportunity to show that talent, people will start taking me more seriously.

  Ricky Hatton

  Fighting, Past, Opportunity

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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