It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

Genius, when young, is divine.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That’s science fiction; it isn’t going to happen.

Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

When I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

One thing about ‚Star Wars‘ that I’m really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That’s why I like the ‚Star Wars‘ toys.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

In case you’re wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no… people think so because I sound so good.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

My imagination is a twisted place.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I’m on form, I can sell anything.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Let the path be open to talent.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

There’s no better place in the world for technology start-ups than Silicon Valley; there’s such an incredible well of talent and capital and resources. The whole system is set up to foster the creation of new companies.