John Dryden Quotes

You can't make a star - they just have it.

I was born with the gift.

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.

Passion is like genius: a miracle.

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

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

I don't think talent or the gift ever goes away.

I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.

Actors are not made, they are born.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

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

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

When you're talented, you're talented.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

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