Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.
I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing: I bought a team.
I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
A lot of people have a lot of talent. What people don't have is the will to work hard enough to develop that talent fully.
I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.
Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.
The globalized environment where speaking a lot of languages is rewarded and getting access to learning materials is easier. A talent for massive language learning has not been supported by the environment until very recently, so this is a phenomenon that is going to become more common and more visible.
Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.
I think you're born with style, but you have to develop it. You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.
Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.
Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.
You can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, you will go further than people that have great talent. Don't talk yourself out of it.
Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.
Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.
Talent comes from experience and failure
I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.
We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.
Natural talent means to have the ability to transform, to evolve, to play and role-play with the photographer and the stylist. And really be an actress rather than just a mannequin. So that involves a tremendous amount of confidence and your ability to expose yourself to anything that will make a better photograph.
We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.
