Patricia Clarkson Quotes

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

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

You have to have a talent for having talent.

I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

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

There's an old chestnut that asks whether an entrepreneur is born or made and I think it's a combination of both. You need the talent; without the talent you can't do it.

I just rely on natural talent," said Adrian, strolling up to the start of the Dragon's Lair. "When you have such a wealth of it to draw from, the danger comes from having too much.

Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy.

My mother says healers are born, not made.

Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.

You are either born a writer or you are not.

You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.

Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player

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

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

Actors are not made, they are born.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.