George Balanchine Quotes

I was born with the gift.

Actors are not made, they are born.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.

When you're talented, you're talented.

Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.

Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious.

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

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

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Yes, I think I have talent.

I'm like one of those dudes who organically have talent.

Any sort of performance was always what I was really born to do.

If you're born with a gift, to behave like it's an achievement is not right.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.