I’m just not willing to give up on myself. If I’m going to fail, then I want to fail to the limits of my talent. – James Gray
I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about ‘America’s Got Talent’ was performing with her! – Jackie Evancho
I don’t think there’s any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent. – Imogen Cunningham
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. – J. K. Rowling
Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other. – Jack Dee
I’m sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory. – J. B. Smoove
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. – Joseph Addison
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
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. – James A. Baldwin
Most salespeople would like to think of themselves as being rock stars, but they don’t display the talent to match their definition. – Jeffrey Gitomer
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. – Ike Turner
Television, in particular, doesn’t look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star. – Jason Alexander
Even with G.O.O.D. Music, we have artists that have done very well, and we’ve had artists that haven’t. Being attached to Kanye is only going to get you so far. You’ve still got to have the records and the talent and the artistry on your own to carry it. – John Legend
I don’t think I’ll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I’d write plays even if they were never done again. You’re at the mercy of whatever talent you have. – Horton Foote
I’m a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn’t care. – Harry Connick, Jr.
I’m sure everyone that has ever done an action movie has just drooled over how full of talent Bruce Lee was and how unique he was. – Jason Statham
If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he’d already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he’s the greatest all around talent that I’ve ever seen. – John McEnroe
I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we’d have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could. – James Brown
I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is. – Jeannette Walls
You can fail in films because you don’t have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I’m a gangster. If I want something, I’ll grab it. – John Cassavetes
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. – John F. Kennedy
I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me – I don’t remember when I wasn’t playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called ‘Monster Rock’ that I wrote. And I won. – Ian Axel
The FBI is engaged in a myriad of efforts to combat cyber threats, from efforts focused on threat identification and sharing inside and outside of government, to our internal emphasis on developing and retaining new talent and changing the way we operate to evolve with the cyber threat. – James Comey
The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It’s an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they’ll support you. – Imtiaz Ali