Robert Osborne Quotes

But I also think it's about a person's personality that draws people in, too, not just their singing.

The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.

You can't teach charisma. You can draw it out of people if it's there and they haven't quite figured out how to utilize it yet, but it's just one of those things, that's why they call it the "X factor".

I have a big, flamboyant, open personality, which I think is why people may be saying these nice things about me.

It's entirely to do with personality, I think. There are good directors who talk a lot, bad directors who talk a lot, and good directors who don't say much and vice-versa. It just depends on whether people respond to that personality and whether people have a willingness to do something for them.

Some people think I'm mean, until they get to know me.

There is a lot of management going on with directing. Maybe that was the biggest surprise-just the amount of tending that I had to do. The different personalities . . . It's not my way, and it's never been my function before as a writer. I tend to be a moody and somewhat withdrawn person, and I felt very clearly that I had to throw that away because that wasn't allowed here - there were other people who were going to be filling that role. Sometimes it became exhausting, especially around the eleventh hour of the day.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time. And good training, which we were lucky to have. And I think that's what people are curious about - other people, and what they're like.

Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!

I think the reason that people fall in love with Sandra Bullock is that she doesn't seem to know it in the same way. She doesn't seem to know it in a way that other gorgeous people maybe would. I think that's what makes her so accessible.

i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

I think I've always had an activist stance, yet at the same time, the other side of me - and this is where some people just don't get it, or they'd prefer it if the work was a lot uglier, a lot louder - I have this personality where I just want to put something out that's a fact and then let you interpret it. It's almost as if you might barely notice it, you might walk right by it, but you have to pay attention.

Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.

I think I can speak for a lot of people in that they would be pretty nervous about meeting Harrison Ford, and I was definitely one of those people. For me, and I think for all of us, once you get to know him, you do get on very well. He's such an amazing person and an amazing actor. There were so many young people on the set and he really pulled the best out of us.

People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.

I think a lot of ladies found me so attractive because I was different, and I acted on that in a way.

I actually think it's going to be the intriguing plot [ in Black Snake Moan] point that brings people into the film.

I think we all have a lot of different personas inside of ourselves. What happens in life is that most people get caught up in presenting one persona that they feel safest in.

A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.

When people realize you're not the stuffed shirt they think you are it's such a relief and you have people who really like to be around you.

people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.

Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma.

I think acting is a gift. I think certain people for some reason just have a gift that they were meant to perform.

Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor.