Antoinette Perry Quotes

I was not a good singer. You know those children who are like, 'I'm gonna be a pop star,' and they sound amazing from the day they were born? I was not like that.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

I was probably born with some designing abilities.

I was born a comic.

I started off singing when I was little. My parents have said I was singing at 3 years old. So I think it was just something I probably came into this world wanting to do and knowing I was going to do.

I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.

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

I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.

I pretty much came out of the womb singing. I think I sang all the time.

But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older.

I feel like directing is an innate talent.

I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.

My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

I started dancing before I could talk. Other babies learn to stand and then walk - I just danced.

You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a footballer when I was seven or eight. I didn't just think I wanted to be one, I knew I was going to be one. Nothing ever surprised me really.

I must say that I always thought I had a voice, even when I was 4 years old.

I had wanted to act since I was a kid, but I had a lot of shame attached to it. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't think it was ever a possibility.

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'

I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school and saying I wanted to be a professional athlete and the teacher replying, 'You're not going to make it; it's not possible.'

I was born understanding the language of music.

Modeling wasn't necessarily what I was into. It's something that you're genetically qualified to do.

I've had acting teachers say, 'If you want to do anything else but act, that means you're not an actor,' which I think is stupid!