Quotes About Charisma

You've got to have charisma and other things in addition to athleticism. But I've got my background in fitness, I've done my training and put time in to develop my craft. So I can push the envelope with those seductive storylines but still show people that I can kick butt, too.

Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.

People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don't have an institution develop around that teacher within about a generation to transmit succession within the group, the movement just dies.

She flashes me a smile so devastating that it could even make an atheist believe in God.

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

Presentationally, Bill Clinton is a US President to die for. The truth is, far too many have.

She was a lovely magnet. So I acted just like a hunk of metal.

Litvak knew that charisma was a real if indefinable quality, a chemical fire that certain half-fortunate men gave off. Like any fire or talent, it was amoral, unconnected to goodness or wickedness, power or usefulness or strength.

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He attracted followers as a magnet attracts filings. In other words, he was exactly the right man to take an inherently implausible idea and lead others to believe in it.

Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

I'm a rock and roll singer.

We're entertainers, not just singers!

The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better word, self-confidence.

Once we went off into the singles world, I noticed there is something very unique about Brother Nero. People are drawn to him, and he has intangibles and charisma that cannot be emulated or duplicated.

Sir Alex Ferguson is the most impressive person I've met in terms of charisma and achievement.

Maybe I am a bit of a siren.

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

Charisma seems to be more about the intoxicating quality that you have on other people, as opposed to presence, which is more about the self in relation to others, and how you feel you represented yourself in a situation, and how you were able to engage. So it's less about how others see you and more about how you see yourself.

When people are infected by my charm, they don't see my size. My piercing deep blue eyes are distracting.

Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.

Ronald Reagan had a kind of shallow movie-star charisma - a combination of makeup and the skill of a good actor - but it wasn't the real thing, and was something that he could turn off when the cameras weren't running.

Auditioning is a skill. There are actors who are not very talented but know how to audition and know how to be really confident in the room and are confident enough to be able to charm the pants off anybody.