Sarah Silverman Quotes

I became known for surprising audiences. Except now, if I surprise them every time, they expect that.

Sarah Silverman

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• The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Important
  • Audience
  • Genuine

• When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Audience

• The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • Girl
  • Boy

• As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Fun
  • Audience
  • Emotions

• You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Remember
  • Audience
  • Look

• The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Relationship
  • Film
  • Audience

• All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Reach

• I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Surprise
  • Risks

• That was my first introduction to BMWs in 1978, when my friend bought it for me as a surprise with my money. And ever since then, I've stuck to BMWs.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Money
  • Me
  • Friend

• Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

  

  Natasha Hamilton
  • Attention
  • Enjoy
  • Audience

• I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what it will be, and it's up to that other person's energy to help create this third thing.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Help

• When you have these surprise breakout films that do well, that have good performances in them, it puts a lot of pressure on the Academy to recognize those projects, so it's more of a conversation about what is greenlit.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Conversation
  • Surprise

• I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Love
  • Audience
  • Privilege

• I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Actor

• I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.

  

  Gallagher
  • Language
  • Blue
  • Surprise

• Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Without

• There has to be that zeal to do something new and surprise yourself and audiences. You have to stay true to your craft, and that should never be sidelined.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • True
  • Yourself
  • Surprise

• You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain discourse or a certain arena of questioning, regarding how you would deal with things that your character has to deal with. Whereas when you're doing a film, once you start asking, "What would I do?," you're getting the distance greater between yourself and the character, or you're bringing the character to you, which I think is self-serving, in the wrong way. The idea is to bring yourself to the character.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Character
  • Idea
  • Audience

• Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Kids
  • Support
  • Needs

• I'm the laziest person I know.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Know
  • Person

• Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.

  

  Benedict Joseph Labre
  • Sin
  • Meditate
  • Horrors

• My mom's a painter, and she used to wear black all the time, and so do I. So I would say a black T-shirt with a pocket is my go-to.

  

  Ethan Peck
  • Black
  • Painter
  • Pocket

• I became known for surprising audiences. Except now, if I surprise them every time, they expect that.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Audience
  • Surprise