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

• I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Audience
  • Started
  • Pilot

• 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

• My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

  

  Tabrett Bethell
  • Audience
  • Just
  • Aim

• 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

• If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Audience
  • Expectation
  • Satisfied

• Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Audience

• 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

• The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Surprise
  • Speed
  • Secrecy

• 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

• You can not bring back the past. But you certainly can not repeat it. Life is short, even if live to ninety. Live to the fullest - that's how I feel. Appreciate every moment, every hour, every day, because they do not blink of an eye, all over. I am absolutely sure that for most people their death comes as a surprise.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Death

• Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a 'Sopranos'.

  

  Sue Naegle
  • Audience
  • Reach
  • Width

• Our history is a passion for me. I feel that we leave out so much information and huge gaps in the American story and it makes it hard for people to really understand that we are all intricately related as Americans. So I am attracted to historically based projects because we entertain and learn something at the same time. I just love that combination.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• The truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.

  

  Esther M. Friesner
  • Truth
  • Magic
  • Danger

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

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Audience
  • Surprise