In the 1993 film, A Bronx Tale, a movie about a father that becomes worried when a local gangster befriends his son in the Bronx in the 1960s. Robert De Niro is talking to his young son as they’re stepping off the bus and the son asks, “Do I have talent dad? Of course you have talent son. You can be anything you wanna be. Remember the saddest thing in life is wasted talent. You can have all the talent in the world but if you don't do the right thing then nothing happens.