You don't work with Cloris Leachman, you experience her.
Getting to work with Edie Falco and watching her be a quiet presence - but a very powerful presence - and so brilliant and free? That was the first person I saw where I was like, 'I want to emulate that.'
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.
Whether you know who Denzel Washington is or you don't, when he walks into the room, you're going to pay attention, because he's just such a powerful man.
Sol Campbell there, using his strength. And that is his strength. His strength.
You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.
I have an intense personality, and a lot of the qualities that the Ultimate Warrior had still apply to my everyday life.
As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.
I literally would go to see Tina Turner any opportunity I had because being in the presence of Tina Turner was like being in the presence of transformative energy, and feminist transformative energy. I remember thinking to myself, whatever this is, it's revolution. Whatever this is, it's change embodied in a woman.
A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his prime.
The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.
If you dissolve your personality, your presence becomes very powerful - this is the essence of spiritual sadhana.
I want to present a very strong and bold image, but with femininity. I love being sweet and salty all together.
I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.
Even in the slippery blur of heat and arms and noise, Lena affected everything in her wake, a pull as powerful as the moon to the tides, or the planets to the sun. I was caught in her orbit, even as she pulled away from mine.
Angela Bettis - I can't say enough about her. She is just an incredible presence. She is very petite and soft, while she still has this power that floats around her.
I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.
[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words.
A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.
Whenever Granny walks into a room, everyone stands up, stops, and just kind of watches her because, obviously, it's huge when she walks into a room. And I find that incredible. I kind of go, 'Ah.'
The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.
Anthony Mackie in 'The Hurt Locker' is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you immediately forget every performance he may have previously given, and focus only on the character in front of you.
[Gal Gadot] is really intense and scary and also incredibly warm and sweet.
