Innate Gift Quotes

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

Talent is talent.

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

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

I always had a musical bone, I guess if you will.

Nobody can take away your talent.

The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.

The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.

The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.

Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry, Pope in painting, Addison in oratory; yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men.

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.