The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe.… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website -… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
Leave a movie audience inspired, and they will want to ingrain that movie into their lives with the toys, branded food products,… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I often tell audiences at the start of my shows that I'm not gay because I've got petitions from lesbian groups saying… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
There is an underserved audience out there, an audience who wants to see truthful movies about serious issues and does not want… — Nick Searcy Copy Share Image
The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you're just breaking in and that's working, and that's - you're… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the… — Loretta Swit Copy Share Image
My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I have to put myself back in the audience's shoes and figure out what they would know and not know. But, there… — Joseph Trapanese Copy Share Image
If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended… — Michelle Yeoh Copy Share Image
Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree,… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
I think that both Luca [ Guadagnino]and I have a kind of resistance to the idea of a film holding a moral… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I don't have personal experience and knowledge about anything but theater. I've been tutored very well on the subject, but ultimately I'm… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You… — Charles Grodin Copy Share Image
You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means making a commitment of time and… — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
It's all about the audience and the people who support your work and respond to it. So, anytime I hear that 'Next… — Tom Kitt Copy Share Image
When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I love live theater; I like the relationship between the show and the audience. That's my comfort zone, but more than anything,… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
If you go out and make a show and put your heart on the line every time, the people will respond to… — Wanderlei Silva Copy Share Image
I did find it particularly difficult to do Broadway. It was not my favourite way to perform. When I do theatre, I… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be… — Anna Friel Copy Share Image
I'm not really much of a genre guy. I think that audiences don't need that anymore where you just need a very… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and… — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
I don't really think that audiences are that much different. I think that a fan is the same whether you are from… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
The great thing about sci-fi is that the fans and the audience are unlike any other genre out there. They are constantly… — Mike Vogel Copy Share Image
My family is my biggest critic. Since they come from a non-filmi background, they give me an audience's point of view. They… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and… — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
With a live audience, if you sing with the right feeling, the response you get is a high, an excitement. There's nothing… — Asha Bhosle Copy Share Image
After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
The fear of every actor is when is this life going to be snatched away from me? Which is the day or… — Akshaye Khanna Copy Share Image
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