Quotes About Presence

From Noah Baumbach, I learned to have a strict no cell phone policy on set. There is nothing that bums you out more than looking over and seeing somebody on their smartphone, and that goes for actors and everyone else.

If you're living strictly for the future or living in the past, it can make your partner feel neglected. Make yourself focus on the moment you're in.

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.

By nature of the job, most actors are striking, remarkable, and alpha.

China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.

Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.

I just stroll in right before the recording goes on.

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.

Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.

I think it's really important as a parent to be present, and I really, really worked hard because my dad struggled with that. And it really bothered me as a kid that I would want to share something with him, and he didn't hear me.

When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.

I'm selling a product, and I have to be out there; I don't have the option not to be.

On stage, you have nothing to hide behind. It allows the work to live in a more organic place. It's almost like a meditation. You have to go on that stage and be as present as possible.

You know, he's a bit of a rock star, but I think he's consciously learnt how to make people feel comfortable around him. Because otherwise, how could anyone act opposite him? The whole time you'd be thinking, 'My god, it's Johnny Depp!'

Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

My wife never comes to watch me fight, she gets too nervous, so do my family. They will only watch it on the television after they know the outcome.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

Onstage, I don't want to be thinking about my outfit, I want to think about what I'm doing, so I'll try to dress as comfortably as possible.

I think I give off a strong energy. I'm 5'9, I'm pretty athletic and I'm pretty outspoken.

When you have live music in the background, people are usually talking over it. You don't actually get to listen to live music in your space all the time.