Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.
I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
Talent is only the starting point.
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.
I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.
One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.