Unacknowledged Talent Quotes

Many people work behind a music project, but hardly get recognised.

In the '50s, '60s, '70s, before television became easily accessible, even the most well-known writers were not recognised. The writers remained mostly an anonymous lot then.

A film that doesn't get distributed is like a child that never gets married.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

First of all, with due respect to my dad, he wasn't an ace composer. He never got the success that my uncle did.

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People don't read you too closely. Perhaps, after I've died, they'll look at my stuff, and read it through, and find there's more in it. That may be wrong, but that's what I comfort myself with.

When you have a special gift you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.

Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.

Whatever I did, there was always someone around who was better qualified. They just didn't bother to do it.

I feel like on 'Free TC,' you know, I feel like I went hard, and not enough people recognized.

I have friends that are super talented, that are far more talented than I am in certain areas, but it just doesn't happen for them. Sometimes you feel guilty for your success because you know people who deserve it way more.

I always dream about other musicians. And they're never interested in hanging out with us. It's like being at school and the bigger boys don't want to play with you!

It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

I've always been underestimated. It's happened throughout my entire career.

I always had good recognition from the Southern writers, but the publishers never took any notice of that.

For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.

The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.

I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.

My mother didn't listen to my first tape, or my second one.

Everyone's so used to taking care of actors and directors, but people in the crew are there the longest and working the hardest.

I had to sell my house and make a lot of sacrifices to become a writer, and it sucks not to get taken seriously.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.

It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings.