I’m trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, ‚I’m different. I’m not just a comedian.‘ I’m trying to become a rock star.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

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‘.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

I can dance to just about anything.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

I learned from the guys before me – Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the stage.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

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

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

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

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

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

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

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

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

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

The quote-unquote ‚description‘ of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it’s about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can’t deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.