Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
Concealed talent brings no reputation.
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
In this industry, very few actors can control their career.
Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.