David Leitch Quotes

I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity.

I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.

I never went to school for acting; it just comes to me. I never practice. I read the script, I'll memorize it. I don't even practice the acting. I'll just do it the day, and it will just come to me.

I never really decided to be an actress, but I got an agent, was called back on every show I auditioned for, and finally decided I was meant to be an actress.

With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.

I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.

I wasn't classically trained as an actor; I wasn't pursuing standup comedy. I really came into it through the back door. And there was a benefit to that, I think, because I wasn't pressing; I wasn't pushing.

I never planned on a career in music at all, so I should say I'm very lucky.

You can't be bad when you're working with a kid. They have the instincts that all great actors have.

I have always been dramatic, so I think being an actress comes naturally to me. I think I am pretty good at it.

I take to acting like a fish to water.

I just was fortunate enough to be talented at what I was watching my brother do. It's great that it worked out that way; I might have been wasting a lot of time saying that's what I want to be, but when I got behind the wheel I had the ability.

I think that acting could be a talent.

I didn't spend my childhood trying to be a performer; it was a big surprise to me that this was what I was doing. But it has always felt quite natural to me. I wasn't taught to do what I do; I found out bit by bit.

I don't think talent or an instinct for acting is something you can teach.

My parents are really, really talented and really good at what they do, so I've always learned from watching them. But their style is something that you can't really learn. They never went to drama school and neither did I.

Actors are not made, they are born.

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation.

Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

I'm better when I'm an autodidact and things just come. Or you're just blessed. I'm not bragging or anything, it just comes to you.