Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes
Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
Quotes to Explore
-
I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
-
When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
-
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.
-
The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
-
Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.
-
The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
-
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
-
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.
-
In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.
-
I have to grow with my audience.
-
You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
-
My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
-
When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
-
I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
-
KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
-
If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
-
I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.
-
We're trying to be a content destination for viral images and to be an entertainment destination in general.
-
I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
-
Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
