What is “talent” (acting)?

Question:Do you agree with the following and how would you put it in other words:

“Talent is the ability to be affected by a great and varied number of stimuli and to express your response to those stimuli in an imaginative, colorful, and individual way”

From: "Being and Doing"
by Eric Morris

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Do you agree with the following and how would you put it in other words:

“Talent is the ability to be affected by a great and varied number of stimuli and to express your response to those stimuli in an imaginative, colorful, and individual way”

From: "Being and Doing"
by Eric Morris

I completely agree with that. The ability to effectively communicate an emotion or reaction without an actual stimuli to envoke such emotion or reaction, in a way that is totally believable and conviencing to the point where the audience is convienced that the actual stimuli was there to begin with... when it wasnt. Does that make sence? Thats what i think talent (in acting) really is!

Yes, I agree completely. The best example of this that I can think of was our late President, Ronald Reagan.

Yup. Well put.