Charismatic Quotes - Page 4

• So my first experience was that I had to do a reboot of my expectations. Like fantastic, great, he's young and charismatic and I was like wow, this is so disorienting, I have to reboot. In retrospect, I can see that it's really powerful that somebody [Snowden] so smart, so young, and with so much to lose risked so much.

  Laura Poitras

  Powerful, Smart, Expectations

  4 Copy quote

• The original WAS a fun film. [Paul] Verhoeven made a couple of 'Robocops' that were so great, too. I think the level of excitement is great and Arnie [Schwarzenegger] was particularly charismatic with that chopped up English, and the size of the man with his confidence and sense of humor.

  Colin Farrell

  Couple, Fun, Men

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss 'Total Recall'". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I could never be in a cult. For starters, they never accessorize properly. David Koresh had no fashion sense, Jim Jones wore leisure suits, and I don't care how charismatic Osama bin Laden was, an AK-47 and an insulin drip do not take the place of drop earrings or a well-placed brooch.

  Joan Rivers

  Fashion, Ak 47, Leisure

  Joan Rivers (2014). “Diary of a Mad Diva”, p.71, Penguin

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with authority and resist such collusion by refusing to establish itself as the charismatic Other.

  Philip Auslander

  Theatre, Resistance, Authority

  Philip Auslander (2002). “From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism”, p.63, Routledge

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• So I decided to start a church, for three reasons. First, I hated going to church and wanted one I liked, so I thought I would just start my own. Second, God had spoken to me in one of those weird charismatic moments and told me to start a church. Third, I am scared of God and try to do what he says.

  Mark Driscoll

  Church, Trying, Three

  7 Copy quote

• The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Class, Long, Leader

  18 Copy quote

• Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad “Joey”, Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.

  Tom Folsom

  Crazy, Mafia, Village

  "Gangster Chic: Joey Gallo" by Tom Folsom, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2009.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.

  Jordan Peele

  Track, President, Helping

  "The stars of Key & Peele talk about staying relevant, and funny, in season 2". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.

  Emile Hirsch

  Believe, Heart, Cnn

  7 Copy quote

• It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.

  Clive Davis

  Energy, Genius, Sparks

  6 Copy quote

• Trevor possessed many of the qualities of a vampire without actually being one. He constantly preyed on me, was deeply charismatic, and tried to suck the life out of me.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Vampire, Quality, Possessed

  4 Copy quote

• Toby [Huss] gets shot, or that part when [John] Travolta says this, or the part where Ethan [Hawke] says that cool thing - those details are the things that are interesting to me. So just acknowledging we don't have a lot of money [for Valley of Violence], so we're going to make a Western that's kind of contained, but we're going to make it super charismatic and we're going to make it memorable for what it is as opposed to what we couldn't afford.

  Ti West

  Memorable, Interesting, Violence

  Source: www.avclub.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a believer who loves Jesus and I work with everybody else whatever their denomination; Catholic, Orthodox, charismatic, main line, evangelicals, anyone who loves Jesus, I'll work with them.

  Bill Bright

  Jesus, Catholic, Lines

  Source: www.cbn.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Donald Trump is a charismatic personality bigger than life.

  Mike Pence

  Personality, Bigger Than Life, Trump

  "Trump, Pence Strike Contrasting Tones On Campaign Trail". "All Things Considered" with Sarah McCammon, www.npr.org. September 23, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Gord] Downie has become more animated than the early days, but he's still the same charismatic performer. And as a whole, that band is really the result of each individual member. If one member was not a part of it, it wouldn't be the Hip. They're all crucial to the whole thing.

  Sarah Harmer

  Band, Hips, Individual

  Source: www.macleans.ca

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for him. His friendship towards the charismatic renewal is there.

  Ralph Martin

  Buenos Aires, Asking, Praying

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was born in Cuba. At the age of 14 years of age I was involved in a revolution. We were suffering from a very cruel, oppressive dictatorship, and the revolution started in the high schools and the universities. So when I was 14, I was involved in the revolution. I was in the revolution four years. During that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up in Cuba, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

  Ted Cruz

  School, Talking, Years

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gregory Peck was so charismatic. I saw a woman fall down - fall down! - when she saw him in a restaurant. And Brando. We were in London, and by then he was about 380 pounds. There was a gorgeous waitress, and off he went, in direct competition with me for this young girl's attention, speaking French, making her blush.

  Val Kilmer

  Girl, Fall, Competition

  "The Iceman Come Backeth". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 28, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You find the most in not any particular denomination specifically. It's the style of worship. So if we have what we call a charismatic worship style, that means upbeat music and a more lively style of preaching usually, people are allowed to clap, say "Amen," whether they're mainline Protestant, conservative Protestant, and Catholics, whatever, they're much more likely to be integrated.

  Michael Emerson

  Mean, People, Catholic

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very kind of staid perspective. Again, there are charismatic white congregations all over, and they don't sing that way. But, you know, on the average.

  Michael Emerson

  White, Average, Europe

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Just because someone is very charismatic, it doesn't mean that they're genuinely qualified.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mean, Qualified

  Source: studybuddhism.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.

  Scott Simon

  Leader, Revolutionary, Ruthless

  Source: www.npr.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The word 'charismatic' was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, 'Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press...does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.'

  Barbara Walters

  Believe, Men, Political

  7 Copy quote

• I've spent enough time with soldiers to know that once they get to know you and they loosen up and become themselves, they are some of the biggest hams and most charismatic, cocky, fun, humorous guys I've ever met.

  Peter Berg

  Fun, Humorous, Cocky

  4 Copy quote

• Sociopaths are often extremely charming. They are people who are better than you and me at charming people, at being charismatic. I've heard this more often than I can count: "He was the most charming man I ever met," or, "She was the sexiest woman I ever met," or, "The most interesting person I ever met . . ."

  Martha Stout

  Men, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source