Onscreen Presence Quotes

I don't think one film is enough to showcase your talent or to show your abilities as an actor.

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

The bikini scenes in 'Billa' were vital because they showed me as a seductress. I'd like to say here that outfits define a character and help an actor, say, 30 per cent, the rest depends on one's histrionic skills.

I didn't debut in a film playing a diva.

I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.

I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a list of questions. But what I am told is that there is a quality that I have onscreen, where it's a little bit of everything.

As an actress, I want to live many lives on-screen.

I think it is easier to hear my voice than see myself onscreen, particularly as the years progress. Watching myself onscreen becomes less and less enthralling.

I have to say, working with Dan Stevens in 'The Guest' and seeing his transformation was incredible. Also Kate Winslet. Off set, she's loud and sweary, but when she walks on set, she has this calmness and is so centred.

It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.

Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen.

I've always just admired women who were able to navigate through dramatic and comedic waters and sort of do it all.

Although he appeared in some awful movies, Elvis could also be pretty damn good as an actor.

Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.

When I saw Spencer Tracy in 'The Old Man and the Sea,' I realised the distinction between being an actor and a film star. He was both, and I, too, resolved to try and be both.

I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.

I love Charles Bronson. He didn't have a lot of range, and he wasn't a great actor, but you couldn't take your eyes off him.

Ralph Fiennes was a big hero of mine acting-wise growing up and while I was training. I just find him so watchable. He was playing this very intimidating character when we worked together and it certainly felt like he was in character off set as well! He was very cool. Before a scene, he'd be like, "Come on. Let's improvise. Let's just do stuff." But Jesus Christ. He's Ralph Fiennes!

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

As far as Lauryn Canny's performance as 'Darlin', it was just so incredibly nuanced and raw and and she's such a hypnotizing person to watch on screen.

I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.

I'm an absolute fan of Angela Bassett. I think she's a great, great actress. In the biopics, she is so moving. She's very rare. It's something that doesn't happen that much, to see an actress inventing a new way of showing 'woman' onscreen, and a new way of being beautiful.

For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

I adore Susan Sarandon, she's just so cool, and brilliant, and beautiful. I just like her whole vibe - off- and on-screen.