James Gray Quotes

It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.

Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

Nobody would be an actor if he/she were not charming at some level.

I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.

He's a fantastic actor, Kelsey Grammer. You don't have that kind of career without having a talent, without having something to say and to give to an audience.

No support of one star or one director or one producer can make any individual actor a star. You have to connect with the audience; the audience have to like you. That is something that cannot be manipulated or fought for or tried for. Either they like you, or they don't.

I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.

There are two categories of actresses: performance-oriented ones and glamourous ones.

In films and TV, actors get chosen based on their capabilities, charisma and the image they carry.

I don't think anybody else has the kind of charisma Mammootty has.

My favourite actor is Denzel Washington, he's a smooth character so he could play me too!

Ranbir has the ability to be a natural in front of the camera. There is nothing artificial about him. When I watch him on screen, I always feel that he is not acting. And I see this quality only in him among my contemporaries. I am a big Ranbir Kapoor fan.

There's the craft of acting, and then there's a quality. There's a quality that someone has.

I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.

People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

Jerry Orbach is just phenomenal. He is genius, so present.

I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.

I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life. I've seen her do a lot of other things, and she's fantastic.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

There are certain actors you watch in a movie, and you think, 'Wow, that guy is very skilled.'

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.