Quotes About Presence

No, but you've got to be here in case something does happen.

It's so easy to become caught up by, 'I've got to do this,' or, 'I've got to do that,' and most of the times, the best stuff comes from when you are not trying to do anything and when you let go.

It's so easy to get caught up in the future and in the past.

If you worry too much, it shows in your acting, and it ceases to be effortless.

I don't have a cell phone.

Actors need to learn when their character is front and center and when it's more in the background.

I love not to be busy in a certain way.

I often have the feeling that acting is really not difficult, because all I do is I just listen. I just listen. I just listen to what there is. And if there's nothing, then I listen to nothing. If there's a chair, and it's empty, I listen to an empty chair, and I will respond to it.

What challenges me is this - I want to walk out of a film with the experience of having done a film, not with a feeling that I have sleepwalked through it.

It's important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It's important to take part in what life's all about.

Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do.

Charisma is charisma.

Charisma always was the important thing to me.

What does not come across on paper for Donald Trump is how incredibly charismatic he is, his ability to connect with people. Because he has this bigger-than-life personality, you don't realize how personable he is.

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

Anywhere I go, if I go out, I have to keep my phone out. I don't try to be rude. If I turn it around, I have to check it every 5 minutes.

I don't have an ego. I check it at the door.

I really want to take time and be in the moment with my kid for at least the first year. I know she's not going to remember that, but it's really for the family chemistry.

Every time you get an opportunity to be around your loved ones, cherish it.

I'm Chi Chi, and everybody knows when I get on stage, it's magical.

If you want to have traction in China, you have to be in China.

That's definitely a part of who Superman is and definitely who Clark on the farm is. It translates to how calm he is. I feel like I'm pretty calm most of the time and relaxed, which gives presence to the character.

Print books have an amazing superpower because they don't disappear when you're done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that they exist.

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.