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"The talent is in the choices."
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"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"

"Brutes find out where their talents lie a bear will not attempt to fly."

"Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way."

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."

"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."

"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
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"I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality."


"It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them."


"I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum."


"I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'"


"When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home."


"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price."
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