Steven Spielberg Quotes

I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing - even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye - it's just interesting.

The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.

Most leading actresses have this energy, this 'Look at me. Here I am.' They're powerful; they're beautiful.

Hillary Clinton doesn't command the screen. She doesn't look intimidating, inviting, engaging.

Marlene Dietrich for the way there was something so unique about her - the way she entered into a frame and everybody looks at her and the way she winks and looks up.

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.

The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.

Scarlett Johansson. I think people don't really realize how great of an actress that girl is. She's so beautiful and that distracts you from what she can do as an actor.

I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.'

I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

We all know that a beautiful face is an important aspect of an actor's personality if he or she wants to make it big in Bollywood.

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

The old adage about acting - that it's 98% energy and 2% talent - is true, you know.

Ingrid Bergman made an enormous impression on me. I couldn't imagine where that kind of acting talent came from.

Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogart and Bergman?

I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.

I guess nobody can teach you the knack, or whatever it is, that helps you come to life on stage.

Your stage presence is as good as your screen presence.

A beautiful face with a sexy body is a dime a dozen in showbiz. When you have magnetic personality, you beat everybody else.

I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.

You always carry a character when you come on screen.

There are very few actors who elevate a scene through their persona. Like for example, Rajinikanth does it with his style. He doesn't need anything else.