Richard Widmark Quotes

The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

I have a theory that the only way you can be any good is if the camera likes you. If the camera doesn't like you, you are gone.

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.

There isn't really anybody who occupies the lens to the extent that Lindsay Lohan does. Something happens when she steps in front of the camera. There is this magnetic energy.

Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her.

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

Robert Preston in 'The Last Starfighter' had an aura. It was almost a surreal experience meeting him. He exuded charm, warmth and that movie star magnetism that is impossible to describe.

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 know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she's a damn good actress too.

Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.

But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.

Johnny Depp is probably the best actor.

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.

The most famous actress who did the 'dumb blond' routine was Marilyn Monroe, but she was a genius actress.

Doris Day was the perfect woman.

Ranbir has the ability to be a natural in front of the camera. There is nothing artificial about him. When I watch him on screen, I always feel that he is not acting. And I see this quality only in him among my contemporaries. I am a big Ranbir Kapoor fan.

Burt Lancaster was a very powerful and intriguing person. That essence of what he was, is the very thing that you and I see on the screen when we watch him.

It's fun to watch a true-blue movie star at work. They're really unbelievably charismatic. They understand camera angles.

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

Who isn't a fan of Tom Cruise? He has been in so many amazing movies.

Although I can be a leading man, you wouldn't look at me and go, 'He's a leading man.'