Talent Preservation Quotes

Woody Allen stayed so good because he never left New York. Howard Stern stayed so good because he never left New York - Mel Brooks when he just got out of New York was doing 'Blazing Saddles;' when he left New York he started doing stuff like 'Robin Hood Men In Tights' - he was in L.A. too long. He lost the edge.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

It's fun coming in as the second or third lead. If the movie or TV show bombs, you aren't to blame.

There's that saying: 'God gave you talent, and if you don't use it He'll take it away from you.' And I always said, 'I don't want God to come down and take my talents away.' So, by using all these talents and being successful in all of them, I've always got something to fall back on.

F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.

You've got to protect whatever creative talent you have left.

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

Your money can be inflated away but your knowledge and talent cannot.

There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.