"I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story."
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"Talent is nothing but long patience."
"Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent."
"Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it."
"I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given."
"The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray."
"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
"After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty."
"Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame."
"Talent imitates, genius steals."
"If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God."
"There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit"
"Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world!"
"I probably have genius. But no talent."
"I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school."
"You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry."
"Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment."
"After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent."
"I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent."
"[ Drizzy] is a good dude , he's been looked out and reached out, and I admire the talent."