Compelling Presence Quotes

When I walk the streets, kings and queens step aside, every woman I meet, they all stay satisfied.

Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written by the writers.

She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.

Gideon was a force of nature, his magnetic self-possession so powerful it put everyone around him in his shadow. I saw flashes of it every day and was awed by it, but not nearly as much as I was by the charming, wryly amusing lover I had entirely to myself in our private moments together.

They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.

Bray Wyatt is one of the most captivating characters to come down the pike in ages.

How did I look at you? I asked thickly. Like you had to, like I was a magnet you were pulled to. There was no choice, he said. And when you look at Jack, it's because when he's around, why would you want to look at anything else? You love him the way you could never love me.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.

She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was Clarissa one remembered. Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was however; there she was.

Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.

She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.

What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth, Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo.

I hope people come to the shows because they feel like there's something there that I can't necessarily articulate, but it's real and it's fun.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

Everyone has to do the same work as actors - I teach acting. But there are those people who come on, and there's just something about them in and above themselves that has to do with chemistry and electricity - this aura about them. And that's unmistakable. Do I have that? Yeah, I think I have that.