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Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

The thing about talent is that it comes at different ages, sometimes at a very early age. That's when I find it to be the most challenging.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

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.

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.