Captivating Quotes

I've been told that my voice is very distinctive. I've been told people feel extremely connected to it.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

Her beauty was not in itself quite incomparable, we are told...but conversation with her had an irresistible charm. Her presence, combined with the persuasiveness of her discourse and the character which was somehow diffused about her behavior towards others, had something stimulating about it …. she could readily turn to whatever language she pleased, so that in her interviews with barbarians she seldom had need of an interpreter, but mostly made her replies unaided, whether the men were Ethiopians, Hebrews, Arabians, Syrians, Medes, or Persians.

I just go out there and be myself and turn up the voltage a little bit for entertainment value.

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.

Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

Mr. Lincoln is one of Nature’s orators, using his rare powers solely and effectively to elucidate and to convince, though their inevitable effect is to delight and electrify as well.

Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well.

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky. It may be around an elbow, a heel, an armpit, a calf muscle, the nape of a neck.

If you come across as boring or monotone, you're going to lose your audience.

I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.

If you're having fun being yourself and filming something that you would watch yourself, it becomes contagious for other people to watch, too.

Robert Lindsay is a legend, he can do anything. Sing, dance, make you laugh. I was in awe of him on 'Hornblower.'

It's impressive to the girl that I'm texting that I have my own emojis. It adds to my charm as a man seeking love.

The first night I met Yo-Yo Ma, I found him the most charming person I had ever met, and I was willing to follow him with the camera anywhere.

I think my goal has always been to remain entertaining. Above all else, remain entertaining.

I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

Fun without sell gets nowhere but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.

'Once' constantly surprises me. I think it's the power of the music and the storytelling that people connect with.

I really like people who have the gift of the gab. I like characters that are very eloquent, articulate and confident in what they're saying. Especially coming off 'Captain America,' who's very internal and intimate, I'd love to play someone who wears their emotions on their sleeves, potentially to a fault.