#talent

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

— Jacqueline Bisset

#feel #freedom #i #like #possibility

I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different. ↗

— Viola Davis

#because #chance #completely #could #counterparts

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. ↗

— Carl Jung

#been #better #between #discrepancy #genius

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#everyone #fifty #talent #twenty-five

I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#called #competition #did #dinner #golden

What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#fact #i #i do #many #off

I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#did #great #great music #i #i do

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. ↗

— Carla Bley

#band #best #between #big #big band

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#come #come and go #court #five #go

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#being #dealt #easy #feel #force