Limited Talent Quotes

Some of the biggest and most popular movie stars in the world are limited or have constantly done what they do really well. Being versatile is not necessarily the greatest quality for an actor.

I've only been blessed with one talent, unfortunately, and that's being able to sing a wee bit.

Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.

I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire.

I'm not a great actor - let's face it. I don't have a great deal of scope. There are certain things I can do, but when I'm bad, I stink. There's something about my shaggy dog eyes that makes people think I'm good. I'm not all that good.

I may have a talent for acting, but I am incapable of doing anything else.

In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the ensemble continues in the movies is because those are the people that can do that kind of work. It's not just an accident those people are in the film.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

Out of high school, all I heard was 'one dimensional,' 'can't do anything but shoot.'

My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!

As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame.

My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.

Some people in the industry feel TV actors can't do anything else.

When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.

I think a lot of musicians and artists are really one that really only have one trick.

There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors.

I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.