#talent

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind. ↗

— Richard Price

#artist #away #definition #excellence #freedom

When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#draft #final #final draft #harold #murray

I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#because #close #educated #evaluate #game

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#ambition #been #block #effort #failure

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#destiny #director #fate #more #point

I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it. ↗

— Victor Garber

#i #interest #talent

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#like #must #obscure #pardoned #talent

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#bach #been #born #composing #due

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me. ↗

— Doris Roberts

#another #attitude #blessing #give #i

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports. ↗

— LeBron James

#first #had #i #i think #know