Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need.

Talent is often a defect in character.

There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.

The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent.

No man can discover his own talents.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that 'talent' to the dark place where it leads.

An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

Talent is forgiven only in the dead; those who are still standing cast shadows.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.