Special Talent Quotes

That was cool, getting to work with Ryan Gosling. I knew he was going to be a huge star after I saw him in that Showtime thing that he did when he was really young [The Believer]. I think the most fun thing about that was I'd never seen somebody that had so many questions about the specifics of everything: where you ate, how much you ate, how much you drank. He's very special.

I don't think I see the way bodies move in any special way. People say I do, but everybody moves. I don't see why all of a sudden I'm a specialist in the way bodies move.

Anjelica Huston and Kelly MacDonald are both really special. Anjelica has such a fresh point of view about acting and doesn't seem jaded at all. She seems more like a student and yet she is veteran actor who really brings it.

I coached Derrick Thomas for the first three years of his career. He was a special player.

I get a lot of demos sent my way, and I listen to them, and sometimes they just have something very special.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

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Nothing special, I have not a special talent. I have been born with a sound, and I like music and try to serve it, but talent is a scientist.

I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.

People think that coaches are always right, but it's difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner is different. You have to have an understanding of how to assist what that runner has, so they know how to assist what you have without taking away your special ability, because you're not like anybody else.

I think reality television is such a special talent.

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.

This Guy (Messi) is the Best Player in the World, no doubt about that. I think we're always nervous about calling people who are currently playing, who are young at 23, to say he's the Best Player ever. But we shouldn't be. We should admit what we are seeing in front of our eyes. This is a special talent, who may be is the Best Player ever been seen.

I never felt like a prodigy. For one thing, the root of the word is rather monstrous, literally. I never really felt like a monster or anything abnormal, because I always had a lot of different interests. But kids tend to focus on one thing, and for me it was violin.

Ultimately, the best driver will always do something special, whatever the rules and whatever the regulations. Same thing with the teams.

I like playing average guys who have a little extra something.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.

Interesting-looking people have always been comedians, and it's rare that someone who has the choice to model ends up being a comic. Except for maybe Whitney Cummings, but that's about it. That's why she's special: because she can combine it.

For a long time, I have been inclined to start a school for the talented children.

How many people can do what I do, anyways? A handful of guys?

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player.

Sometimes you need a special player to do something out of the ordinary.

I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now.