“Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them.” IfsMeanStillsLostAttentionSilenceTalkingAudienceQuietOkayPay AttentionBombs Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“... there's a large core of powerlessness which is balanced against the unwritten contract that says that if you behave, you'll be okay. No wonder people pay so much attention to knowing the rules, to knowing the right people, to not making waves, to never making errors -- to not risking, trying, innovating.” PeopleIfsTryingPayAttentionWonderKnowingOkayErrorsWaveCoreBehaveContractsBalancedPowerlessnessUnwritten Author:Judith M Bardwick
“You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene."” WantI CanSometimesCharacterPayAttentionSceneQuietOkayLet Me Author:Viola Davis
“Sometimes I have experienced at the start of a film you're very excited and enthusiastic and you've done all your preparation internally and externally and you start the film and it's all go... Then your attention goes somewhere else. Your energy goes into telling the story, so you don't have the same amount of energy to be objective, and that's okay because sometimes you become a subject of the story and you're inside it so much that you don't need to keep on looking on the outside.” NeedsSometimesDoneStoriesFilmEnergyAttentionSubjectsAmountOkayExcitedObjectivesPreparationEnthusiasticSomewhere Else Author:Colin Farrell