Wesley Snipes Quotes

I feel like I own the stage.

A lot of characters I've played have a certain amount of strength, pride, and leadership.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.

I have a natural swagger.

There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.

If we show ourselves as weak, we lose.... In the end, we want to lead the Muslim world. We can only do that with our heads held high.

I see that I have, as part of my stock in trade, a very regal personality and carriage. I see that I have a kind of strength, a kind of command, and a kind of power that one would associated with a monarch.

Without false modesty, I feel that, when I'm on the stage, I'm the king, the boss of the situation.

A woman who walks well parts crowds - it's something we should all be taught to do.

When you walk in a room, the room should feel that this guy's different. What does he do? Who is he? And that's confidence, not cockiness.

I'm not the kind of person who goes into the dressing room and says: 'I'm the Guv here.' But maybe I give off the aura that I'm the kind of person who can be a big player.

When my dad walks into a room, he takes over the room, not because he's trying to, but because there's a respect of a lifelong career, and there's an energy coming from him. He is the alpha male in the room.

The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever.

I know I'm the most influential.

When I walk into the room, I own it!

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

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

I like to look strong and commanding.

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.

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've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.

Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness.