Top 100 No Talent Quotes
#1. People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.
Cecilia Bartoli
#2. Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.
V.C. Andrews
#3. The beauty of an art school: as long as you can pay the tuition, they will never, even in the gentlest way, suggest that you have no talent.
David Sedaris
#4. There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.
Joseph Addison
#5. I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
Victor Garber
#6. Too many people have refused to begin running or have quickly dropped out of running programs because they 'have no talent for it.' Ridiculous. Talent has nothing to do with it. The only thing that matters is mental discipline.
Amby Burfoot
#7. At this point I feel like I could go out and accomplish anything. I'd just love to see Will Smith's face if he found out I, Z-Braff, have the number one rap album in the country. That'd show that no-talent uncle tom.
Zach Braff
#8. That is why historians surprise me. They seem to have no talent for the likeliness of any situation. They see history like a peepshow; with two-dimensional figures against a distant background.
Josephine Tey
#9. As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it.
Shinichi Suzuki
#10. It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
Freddie Mercury
#11. The prerequisite for a banker is Strait As and no talent.
Grant McLachlan
#12. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
Og Mandino
#13. An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.
Tom Lehrer
#14. Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.
Chuck Palahniuk
#16. You think you have no 'talent'? Write anyway. lots of people with 'talent' don't actually act on it. As long as you write, you will learn, you will improve, and you will be better than anyone claiming to have 'talent.
M. Kirin
#17. With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.
Elia Kazan
#18. YOU CANT SAY YOU HAVE NO TALENT BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS A TALENT BUT ALL TALENT ARE NOT FOR EVERY ONE
Naomi
#19. I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that's all.
Anna Kamienska
#20. Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
Wendell Phillips
#21. Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
Jonathan Coe
#22. They say in that book (Keneally's Schindler's List) that I gave the Jews the food in their mouths. I never had time to find out who was sick and who had to be fed (by hand). I am no good as a nurse, I tell you frankly. I have no talent for nursing ... I bought the food for everyone.
Emilie Schindler
#23. We learn by watching. That's what concerns me a little about the society we're in now because so much of what we're watching is entitled, self-centered, brats with no talent becoming very, very famous for literally no reason.
Laura Benanti
#24. I used to have this dream that somebody was knocking at my door. I'd say 'Who is it?' and they'd answer 'Police.' I'd open the door and they would say to me, 'Pack your bags. We realized you have no talent.
Leslie Nielsen
#25. Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.
Paul Gauguin
#26. One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
Graham Greene
#27. I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
Lucille Ball
#28. If you have talent and energy, you're king. If you have only energy and no talent, you're still a prince. But if you have talent and no energy, you're a pauper.
Jeffrey Archer
#29. A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.
Jean De La Bruyere
#30. There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
W. Somerset Maugham
#31. The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.
Jerry Stiller
#32. I wasn't aware that hope require a reason, any more than love. In case you have forgotten - I have no talent for hoping. I don't hope. I know. I believe. I expect.
Tessa Dare
#33. As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
Johnny Depp
#34. My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick.
Cheryl Ladd
#35. I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.
Mike Myers
#36. I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.
Alex Steffen
#37. Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ... ' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?'
'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.
Anne Rice
#39. There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
Thomas Sowell
#40. It takes no talent to be sad. And you know how talented I am.
Damien D'Enfer
#41. I used to say Edinburgh was a beautiful actress with no talent. I thought it was just like a shortbread tin. I think that's because I did six Festivals in a row there, and I never saw the real Edinburgh, just a lot of deeply annoying Cambridge Footlights kids wanting to be actresses.
Michelle Gomez
#43. I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'
Lance Burton
#44. Having no talent is no longer enough.
Gore Vidal
#45. On impulse he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different. He has no talent for monotony.
Margaret Atwood
#46. I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.
Louise Penny
#47. We say: he has no talent, only tone. But tone is precisely what cannot be invented - we're born with it. Tone is an inherited grace, the privilege some of us have of making our organic pulsations felt - tone is more than talent, it is its essence.
Emil Cioran
#49. When I go back to God after my life, I want to make sure I go back with absolutely no talent and tell him, "I used up everything you gave me.
Abhishek Krishnan
#50. No talent, but yet a character.
[Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.]
Heinrich Heine
#51. This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.
{Comment on German scientist Eduard Buchner who later ironically won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery}
Adolf Von Baeyer
#52. I was strictly a college-ruled man myself, having no talent for illustration and a microscopic scrawl that made wide-ruled seem roomy. The blank pages were usually the most popular
Rachel Cohn
#53. Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#54. Never be frightened by those you assume have more talent than you do, because in the end energy will prevail. My formula is: energy plus talent and you are a king; energy and no talent and you are still a prince; talent and no energy and you are a pauper.
Jeffrey Archer
#55. Don't worry. You've got no talent to begin with. How hard you tried isn't important either. But each little thing you learn will get you closer to doing the things you really want to.
Hisae Iwaoka
#56. When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.
Francis Ford Coppola
#57. Some people have no talent but we can't all be that lucky.
Marty Rubin
#58. The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Quentin Crisp
#59. I'm a simple man, Janet. I say what I mean and have no talent for games. I want to show you how I feel about you so there's no chance for misunderstanding. If you think I'm trying to romance you, you're right. I am.
Pamela Clare
#61. The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
Hugh Leonard
#62. The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.
Charles Baudelaire
#63. I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.
John Burnside
#64. He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent for words, neither for paints nor music; his uselessness is tremendously total.
Curtis Ackie
#66. Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'
Marilyn Monroe
#67. Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.
Jules Renard
#68. Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
George Bernard Shaw
#69. It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley
#70. I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
Kurt Vonnegut
#71. I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.
Grace Jones
#73. The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
Orson Welles
#74. Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.
Mark Twain
#75. Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need ... when you have no talent.
Dean Martin
#76. The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty
Mark Twain
#77. I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
Burt Bacharach
#78. The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
James Agate
#79. There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equals as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that's that. I am not talented. I am obsessed.
Conor McGregor
#80. No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.
Robert Heller
#81. It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.
Nancy Mitford
#82. A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people.
Bryant McGill
#83. I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.
David Geffen
#85. Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.
Anita Loos
#86. I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.
Daphne Du Maurier
#87. There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.
Lily Collins
#89. Nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.
Lynda Obst
#90. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
#91. We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
Michelle Bachelet
#92. One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#93. The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.
John Hughes
#94. There is nothing to fear. There is no such thing as death. Death has nothing to do with us. But you said something about being talented
that it makes one different. Now, that does have something to do with us. And talent in the highest and broadest sense means talent for life.
Boris Pasternak
#95. There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#96. Envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.
Ada Leverson
#97. In sum, what have we learned? First: grit, talent, and all other psychological traits relevant to success in life are influenced by genes and also by experience. Second: there's no single gene for grit, or indeed any other psychological trait.
Angela Duckworth
#98. I'm one of those people who was meant to have a very ordinary life. I have no special talent, no great beauty, nothing that distinguishes me from a hundred, thousand other girls. But I can't go through an entire lifetime without at least one night of magic.
Lisa Kleypas
#99. [There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.
James Whyte Black
#100. I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
Patricia Reilly Giff
