Steve Zissis Quotes

Like we were saying, the fact that the relationships on the show are love-based, and in the sense that I wasn't aware of how special it was in contrast to a lot of the other TV shows that are on right now. It was our audience members that pointed out the love that you see in the show is special.

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• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Actor

• 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

• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Audience
  • Songs

• My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Audience

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Family
  • Best
  • Sense

• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Sense

• I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Sense
  • Humour

• The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Audience
  • Chemistry
  • Pair

• There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Real
  • Sense
  • Camaraderie

• The 'social contract,' in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Sense
  • Conquest
  • Conquerors

• Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Love
  • Ambition
  • Sense

• I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Audience

• I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Single
  • Books
  • Sense

• Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Writing
  • Audience
  • Improvisation

• Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • High
  • Death
  • Audience

• I always want to be a member in the audience, and I want to hear it from their point of view and see it from their point of view so I can know if it's good. But that's just my issues, not a real problem.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Good
  • Real
  • Problem

• Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Serious
  • Politics
  • Sense

• I'm wearing a new perfume that I should recommend to the women in the audience; it's called 'Tester.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Women
  • Should
  • Audience

• A large part of my filmmaking self has to do with my love of being in the cinema audience, and my relationships to what I want to see on the screen, what I have seen on the screen and what I don't want to see on the screen again.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Audience
  • Self
  • Cinema

• I was never trying to be the voice for anybody else. I was just trying to sing about what I was going through, and was singing about those things specifically because I knew there was an audience not being served.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Trying
  • Singing
  • Voice

• I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.

  

  Terry Zwigoff
  • Hate
  • Film
  • Audience

• It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Knowing
  • Rings
  • E-mail

• Like we were saying, the fact that the relationships on the show are love-based, and in the sense that I wasn't aware of how special it was in contrast to a lot of the other TV shows that are on right now. It was our audience members that pointed out the love that you see in the show is special.

  

  Steve Zissis
  • Audience
  • Sense
  • TV Show