Gene Tierney Quotes

Charm is an intangible. Chutzpah, charm, charisma, that kind of thing, you can't buy it. You either have it or you don't.

Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you.

In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.

You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.

I don't really exude that 'it' factor.

Claude Kirk was probably the most charismatic person I ever met.

When people are infected by my charm, they don't see my size. My piercing deep blue eyes are distracting.

Very, very few adults possess so much charm that they can long be supported by another adult based on that attribute alone.

I think I have kind of a natural magnetism.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

With somebody like Harrison Ford, they're so commanding and confident, and you know, he does have a certain power or charisma, and those are things that are sort of ineffable.

I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.

There are different ways to be charismatic.

Was Effenberg a leader because he projected presence or because he had a presence? There is a difference.

I find people sexy, and I find personalities fascinating and sexy and appealing and charming. So a sexy girl wrapped in a sheet is a sexy girl, and an un-sexy girl in a low-cut dress is still an un-sexy girl.

The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These are such as are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded as of divine origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual concerned is treated as a 'leader.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.

I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.