lost talent Quotes

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

I can't do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.

I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.

I've met so many remarkable people so far, coming up through stand-up all these years, who just aren't alive anymore. Because they are dead. Some really great people who helped change my life and career, people like Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Johnny Carson.

I knew guys way more talented than me who fell through the cracks.

I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.

My belief also is that Marilyn Monroe passed away long before she should have left us.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator.

I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that claim anymore.

Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.

The thing with Berry and Duane and the rest of us in the original Allman Brothers seemed to be a once-in-a-lifetime thing. When Duane was killed, we knew we lost a great part of that, but we still managed to play some great music.

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

I've watched people who were better actors than me disappear, and they're selling insurance now.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.