Keyword: Talent

Persistence is a great substitute for talent.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

Her only flair is in her nostrils.

(1919 – 2001) American film critic

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

(1963 – ) Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter & film producer

Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to accommodate all these singing shows.

(1974 – ) American comedian

In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.

(1945 – ) author, music journalist & cultural critic

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Far-away talent always seems better than home-developed talent.

First of all you've got to have talent, and then you've got to marry her like I did.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Far-away talent always seems better than home-developed talent.


We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist