Audience Quote by Andi Dorfman

In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you.

— Max von Sydow

There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of imagine what…

— Pete Docter

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to…

— Chuck Berry

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean,…

— Rumi

To be silent is to be complicit.

— Richard Edelman

The silent are the most mighty, they don't need publicity to express their thoughts, for their minds are enough

— Bree Daniels

It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness. They're thinking and feeling the world, but they're saying…

— Viola Davis

Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.

— Alfred Lunt

Often a silent face has voice and words.

— Ovid

Of course I love when people are quiet, but I also love when people are comfortable. I love when people emote. The flip side…

— Missy Mazzoli

With silent films, you're better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It's this pact that leads to emotion being created.

— Michel Hazanavicius

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

— Arundhati Roy