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"Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born."
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"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
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"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit."
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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
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"Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
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"He has tongue of a writer."
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"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
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"Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius."
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"I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it."
Adventure
"I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off."
Act
"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."
Time
"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."
Feelings
"I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her."
Travel
"Good acting is consistency of performance."
Consistency
"You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure."
Success
"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."
Funny
"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."
Comedy
"We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved."
Museums
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