Quotes About Impression

Politics is a lot like acting. You have to be on all the time.

You have to add something of yourself to the portrayal.

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.

You are what you're portrayed as.

I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one's business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn't possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school.

Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?

How we dress, the car we drive, the profession we have, the Facebook updates we post, they all reveal a great deal about who we are.

The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.

Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.

Posture has such a big impact on the way people perceive you.

When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish.

Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.

Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.'

For actors, the idea is that you convince people you're someone you're not.

I try to look cool. I strategize. Sometimes it's like - that's part of the strategizing, to make it seem like I don't think about it.

Sylvester Stallone seems like a really cool guy, and Dolph Lundgren seems awesome.

I don't need to do or say things to place me in a position where I look a bit cooler.

Robert Pastorelli was about the coolest guy I had ever met in my life.

She made a ravishing corpse.

I had to dance in a Tweety Bird costume once.

When they don't know you, when you don't have credits and they're thinking, 'I don't know this French guy,' your first five minutes are trying to seduce them, trying to get them on your side. And it's not easy.

Having once met Trump... Ah he's creepy, man.

If I have to get a film by impressing someone, the audience can see everything. They will criticise me if I can't act, no matter how many films I get.