I still have my talent to produce and direct.

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.

I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.

My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.

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.