Claudette Colbert Quotes

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

My acting has got to be natural. I didn't go to any drama schools. It's a gift from God.

I think acting is a gift. I think certain people for some reason just have a gift that they were meant to perform.

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.

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.

You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.

I did not develop my ear. I discovered I had an ear, and it was an accident.

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

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

It's in my blood to perform.

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.

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

It's funny how you can say performing is in the blood, and if I'm considered a performer being an actor, then it's certainly in the blood.

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

Between my two girls, Alia showed a natural flair for acting.

Actors are not made, they are born.

I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.

Everyone has to do the same work as actors - I teach acting. But there are those people who come on, and there's just something about them in and above themselves that has to do with chemistry and electricity - this aura about them. And that's unmistakable. Do I have that? Yeah, I think I have that.

I always felt that I was more of an actress than a - I can't tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.

I have the greatest respect for Mr. Rishi Kapoor - he's simply amazing and also Sridevi. I personally think that is what acting IS about! If you have tapped into your talent, you should be trained enough to access it easily!

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

If he were on fire, he couldn't act as if he were burning. He can't out-act me on the big screen.