Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
Not my political ideas. Conservatism didn’t buy this house. First and foremost I’m a businessman. My first goal is to attract the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I do have huge pressure in terms of making my animation, because a lot of audiences and producers are expecting me to… — Mamoru Oshii Copy Share Image
This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
I've had a long association with the theater over the years but I had never produced a play and it was something… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
Once I got into high school, any time I had to do a talk or a speech, I just loved being up… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
Well, besides being entertained, I’d like to move them emotionally. I mean I really want to uplift them. I want to look… — Yanni Copy Share Image
When Jesus says, 'Take, eat. This is my body that was broken for you,' He says, I want my body in you.… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
I was a standup comic, which doesn't necessarily mean you interact with people all that much. In fact when I did shows,… — Scott Aukerman 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
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
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
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
A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the filmmakers. I think that… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
It's when I make a joke about Indian people and then a white person comes up to me and says, "That's wrong.… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice,… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
I'm living as an artist, and that's a staggering feeling, it's a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
People always feel like there's a big split between TV and films: I'm a television actress, I'm a film actress. Maybe that's… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
Science and technology were often used by [the magician of old], even before they came into the marketplace on a mass basis.… — David Copperfield 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
When I broke into music journalism it wasn't easy but there was more of an established path. I wanted and was able… — Anthony DeCurtis Copy Share Image
He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they [shots of visual effects] can be… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
We drove to the airport. On the way, Clay gave him "the lecture," including all the do's and don'ts of meeting the… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
A lot of stand-up comedians are actually very insecure, and they come on slightly battling the audience. They want to be the… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Genre is a really great shorthand you can have with an audience. In the same way you can use music to create… — Jonathan Levine Copy Share Image
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I… — Bill Tilden Copy Share Image
There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Waiting for Godot . . . has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I choose jobs quite selfishly. I do them for me and the exploration you get to go on with a character... seeing… — Elaine Cassidy Copy Share Image
“The Joke...Audience as reflexive cast; 35 mm. X2 cameras;variable length; black and white, silent. Parody of Hollis Frampton’s ‘audience-specific events,’ two Ikegami… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make sure that the visual connections between the disparate elements are strong enough for the viewer to keep moving… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image