There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them.

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.

I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.

I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.