Pastoral Resources

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

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.

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.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

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.

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.

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.

Talent is only the starting point.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

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.

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

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.