“- Mickey: You had the talent to become a good fighter, but instead of that, you become a legbreaker to some cheap, second rate loanshark!
- Rocky: It's a living.
- Mickey: It's a waste of life!”
Burgess Meredith - Mickey
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.”
Robert De Niro - Lorenzo

“There only two important things in living - finding out what you do well and finding out what makes you happy. And if God is smiling on you, they're both the same thing.”
Héctor Elizondo - Arthur Willis

“You have a genuine talent for slogans. It must be like having an ear for music.”

Ernest Truex - Mr. Baxter

“The voice you hear is not my speaking voice - but my mind's voice. I have not spoken since I was six-years-old. No one knows why - not even me. My father says it is a dark talent, and the day I take it into my head to stop breathing will be my last.”

Holly Hunter - Ada