Quotes About Presence

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

The secret is not to act, but to be.

The secret is to be awake. To be awake is everything.

The secret to acting is don't act. Be you, with add-ons.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

I think an owner needs to be present. When an owner is not present that's when things tend to go awry.

Liverpool is a club where you need to be there to enjoy it. It's not worth owning Liverpool if you are going to always be 20,000 miles away.

I like to pace onstage.

Certainly, when you have shoulder pads on that go up to your ears, you hold yourself a certain way. You speak with authority when you have shoulders like that.

There's a fullness that happens when someone is focussed on you. For me, if I'm being fully looked at and paid attention to and seen, I'm filled up by that.

We have a God who loves us. We are in the palm of his hand. He doesn't leave us, and He doesn't forsake us.

Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played young Mako in 'Pacific Rim,' it makes no difference - I like actors with a very strong centre.

It's especially important for my little girl to see her papa at work.

I try to, pardon the expression, stay with my feet on the ground.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.

If I go out to eat with my wife or take my son to the park, nobody cares.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

For me, actors have to have a character, an aura, body language. They're not models. They used to call actors models. But I want them to participate in the film.

At first, not having Mina with us made us all feel lonely, and there was an emptiness without her. However, Mina is trying her best to participate, so even when she's not with us in person, she's still always with us in spirit.

When you live closely with people, you don't see who they really are. In particular, with nannies, they only exist in your home, and when they leave, they don't really exist anymore for you.

When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party. When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there every day.

A meaningful life depends upon a sense of aliveness and presence, both of which spring from intimate contact with internal body states.