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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?'

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.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

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

I still have my talent to produce and direct.

Talent will come out.

Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.