“For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.” DifferentMomentsFilmStuffWatchesAudienceReactionsInstanceTuesdayDoing RightPremieres Author:Devon Sawa
“As you get older, as a comedian, and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.” LongSilenceAudienceLaughingStageHugeComfortableJokesReactionsComedianCherish Author:Patton Oswalt
“The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel every expression, every reaction. He get far enough from his story to take a second look at it... to see whether there is any dead phase... to see whether the personalities are going to be interesting and appealing to the audience. He should also try to see that the things that his characters are doing are of an interesting nature.” MenFeelsShouldTryingMindLooksEnoughCharacterStoriesInterestingAudiencePiecesDesignExpressionPersonalityDevelopmentReactionsPhases Author:Walt Disney
“My main goal as an actor, with my craft or whatever poncy way you want to say it, is to always take the audience with me. To make them feel for me, or to make them hate me, I want a reaction. I want their emotions. The worst reaction someone can have is, "eh."” WayWantFeelsHateActorsGoalEmotionAudienceWorstReactionsCraftsHate Me Author:Adelaide Kane
“I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to.” StillsHomeAudienceComedyLeavingReactionsInteractive Author:Jerry Bruckheimer
“In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.” MindMatterFactsFoundForgetAudienceTroubleEasierLaughterPerformancesTheaterCustomersTheatreReactionsEveningForget ItMatter Of FactHanging OnFrame Of Mind Author:Beatrice Lillie
“The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.” MatterMomentsMistakeAudienceDependsNo Matter WhatReactionsWrong Things Author:Bruce Springsteen
“When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.” ThinkingIdeasNightCertainSongMistakeAudienceReactions Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the actor can sense the reaction from the audience and quickly move on.” WorldMovingActorsDifferencesActingAudienceReactionsTiming Author:Betty White
“For me, once the film is out, it belongs to the audience, and I have to be open to any reaction that comes from it.” FilmAudienceReactions Author:Claudia Llosa
“An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.” MomentsFormActorsGivenActingPowerAudienceComedyAirEffectsMessagesUniqueTragedyCommunicateReactionsCommandMediumsUnexpectedThat MomentSplitsAlluringThin Air Book:The Fabric of Memory Source: The Fabric of Memory
“I wanted to make a film that wasn't just a biography. When you watched it, you actually felt that you watched a movie, that you had an emotional reaction. In order to do that, I felt that I had to really keep myself emotionally raw while working on the film. I had to feel myself crying, so the audience could be moved, too.” FeelsWantedFilmOrderFeltAudienceCryEmotionalMovedReactionsBiographiesEmotional Reactions Author:Tamra Davis
“I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.” PeopleFirstsSeemsDifferencesAudienceFrontsReactionsHeightCommentDrastic Author:Kaki King
“A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.” DifferentFilmActingAudienceVicesReactionsVice Versa Author:Richard McCabe
“The idea of surprise is part of what makes something funny, or what gets a reaction. At least when I'm an audience member, after you hear a joke so many times it's not as funny because it loses its surprise or its twist. So I think funny has to do with surprise.” ThinkingIdeasLosesAudienceMembersJokesSurpriseReactionsTwists Author:Charlyne Yi
“The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same reaction that you would actually have to whatever's going on.” CharacterAudienceReactionsGreat Things Author:Topher Grace
“Women became almost our bigger audience. Teenage girls went crazy for my movie. I saw it. I went to theatres all over and there were gangs of girls going and screaming. There were kids that were 10 or 11 years old when September 11 happened. They've been told for years they're going to get killed, they're going to get blown up. Every time you go on an airplane, X-ray your shoes because you're going to get blown up. Terror alert orange, don't travel. So, people have a reaction and they want to scream. Horror movies have become the new date movie.” PeopleWantYearsKidsGirlAudienceSawsHappenedCrazyGoes OnHorrorBiggerShoesTerrorTheatreReactionsRaysScreamAirplaneSeptemberTeenageOrangeGangSeptember 11Teenage GirlDate Movie Author:Eli Roth
“In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act and you're in the audience” PlayDreamFilmAudienceLike YouPerformancesReactionsTrappedBad Dream Author:Jonathan Groff
“I'm in a place where the audience doesn't have control over my love for the music. In the past I was waiting on the reaction of the fans to tell me whether or not I had a great record based on how they'd respond.” PastWaitingAudienceRecordsFansReactions Author:Andrew Ripp
“I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.” FeelingsIndividualGivenAudienceStreetsTheaterExtraordinaryHonestlyReactionsGrantedGreatest Gifts Author:Angela Lansbury