It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.
~By James Norman Hall ~
Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.
~By Christopher Plummer ~
I feel for Veronica Mars so much when I'm watching at home. It is a wonderful story. The writing is consistently funny, biting, charming, heart-wrenching, etc. I also like the look of it. The cinematography - different from any other show.
~By Jason Dohring ~
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
~By E. M. Forster ~
I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.
~By John Badham ~
Power without abuse loses its charm.
~By Paul Valery ~
First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
~By Gustav Stickley ~
George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.
~By Ann Robinson ~
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
~By William Harvey ~
I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
~By Germaine Greer ~
I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
~By John McGahern ~
I had hoped that he has mouth smell or something other repelling, but nothing! It was even charming.
~By Michelle Hunziker ~
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
~By Edgar Degas ~
Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you.
~By Anna Held ~
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell.
~By Rosser Reeves ~
The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format.
~By Craig McCracken ~
I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.
~By Linda Evans ~
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
~By Anita Loos ~
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."
~By Helen Rowland ~
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
~By John Greenleaf Whittier ~
I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
~By Larisa Oleynik ~
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
~By Mark Twain ~
The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.
~By Christopher Plummer ~
And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
~By John Buchan ~
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
~By John Mason Brown ~
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
~By Anita Brookner ~
I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.
~By Steve Waugh ~
I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.
~By James McAvoy ~
When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!
~By Alma Gluck ~
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
~By Washington Irving ~
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
~By Edgar Saltus ~
The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.
~By Charles Perrault ~
Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
~By Thomas Gray ~
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
~By Albert Camus ~
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
~By John Adams ~
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
~By Hannah Cowley ~
There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.
~By Jerome Robbins ~
Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.
~By Jimmy Connors ~
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~By Marcel Proust ~
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.
~By Eliza Haywood ~
I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.
~By Skeet Ulrich ~
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.
~By Lord Mountbatten ~
I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
~By Washington Irving ~
A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
~By Aaron Spelling ~
I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don't blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils.
~By Boris Vallejo ~
They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.
~By Cleo Moore ~
Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
~By Quentin Tarantino ~
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
~By Henry Ellis ~
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
~By Helen Rowland ~
He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.
~By Louise Jameson ~
I've always thought Prince Charming in 'Cinderella' was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.
~By Jude Law ~
But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.
~By Sienna Miller ~
I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
~By Harold Pinter ~
Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.
~By Anna Seward ~
I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
~By Carl Reiner ~
A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.
~By Loretta Young ~
She ne'er was really charming till she died.
~By Terence ~
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
~By Alexander Pope ~
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
~By Sacha Guitry ~
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
~By John Strachan ~
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
~By Plato ~
There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.
~By Patrick MacGill ~
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.
~By Jennifer Saunders ~
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
~By William Cowper ~
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
~By Beatrice Wood ~
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
~By Plato ~
Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
~By Jane Austen ~
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.
~By Ted Kotcheff ~
What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.
~By Isabel Yosito ~
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
~By Anatole France ~
Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.
~By Ray Manzarek ~
Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.
~By Thomas Bulfinch ~
I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.
~By Jennifer Love Hewitt ~
In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
~By Judith Martin ~
Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
~By Kathleen Winsor ~
Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
~By George Farquhar ~
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
~By William H. Macy ~
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
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