I gravitate towards gravitas.

I always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those things, the…

— Morgan Freeman

Gravitas is the soup bone in the stew of television news.

— Stephen Colbert

I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained.

— Elizabeth Marvel

Part of me also knows that this generation is the least racist and most pro-gay, so that's great. But they have a real lack…

— Greg Behrendt

Bikers, in general, have just been so attractive to people. Photographers would follow them because there's this weird warrior gravitas that comes with it.…

— Ryan Hurst

There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person…

— Lena Dunham

There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, integrity and…

— Sylvia Ann Hewlett

I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize…

— Benjamin Bratt

I feel I have a certain gravitas.

— Biju Menon

You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least,…

— Mariella Frostrup

These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very…

— Tony Hoagland

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

— Ariel Dorfman

I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed…

— Mariella Frostrup

It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It…

— Werner Herzog

It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but…

— Barry Eisler