Screen Presence Quotes

The closest to Hepburn is Cate Blanchett.

I have had people telling me that they liked my screen presence and my voice, so I guess that's my strength.

A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because they don't often get a chance to work, and when they do, they don't usually get a chance to work with other black people.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

I think one in five Americans has a disability of some sort. That's 20% of the population, and yet we rarely ever see people with disabilities on-screen, and their stories and their resilience and their zest for life and their humor and their humanity.

I don't really look like I do in any of my films.

I was about 10 years old. I just remember the film Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen and I thought to myself, "That's what I want to do for a living when I'm older." Bruce Lee was so magnetic and charismatic and held the screen so well. It's just a very powerful performance in that film. That's the first memory I have - him in that movie.

If you are having fun on screen, it shows.

Chemistry on film is like chemistry in real life, it's either there or it isn't.

James Spader is a good actor.

I realise that certain actors project their own image onto the screen - those who are the same on as they are off. But I've never had the necessary statistics to be able to do that sort of thing, and so, anyway, I always wanted to be a character actor.

I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere.

I think William H. Macy is the best actor in Hollywood.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone.

I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.

Sridevi was magic on screen.

I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.

I've always loved movies but everyone loves movies, so I never conceived of the fact that I could actually be in them. In high school I had some friends in the drama department, but they were just doing plays, and I was like, "Eh, I don't really think that that's me." So I just played sports. Then, a bunch of years later, I'm acting.

I've never played anyone but myself on screen.

A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.

I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.

I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, 'That's what I want to do for a living when I'm older.' Bruce Lee was so magnetic and charismatic and held the screen so well.

The scripts that I take should be solid in terms of content; only then will my inability as an actor not show up on the screen.

I don't know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I admire those people, but I've never been that kind of screen presence who can do nothing. I need to do something.

I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.