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I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

I feel like directing is an innate talent.

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

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.

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

But either way you cannot deny the sales and what we did.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.