I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

I feel like directing is an innate talent.

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.

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.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.

Let the path be open to talent.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.