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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
"We don't choose our talents, but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want."
"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
"If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out."
Explore more quotes by Jim Dale
"I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling."
"You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage."
"When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that."
"I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions."
"It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you."
"The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it."
"I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy."
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