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“I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.”

Knows Trying Happiness Joy Audience Tears Drama Laughter

Author:Judy Garland

“[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.”

Ifs Looks Wish Audience Laughing Advice Cry Tears Serious Judging Shed Casanova

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.”

Feels Sometimes Audience Comedy Tears Stronger Anguish Poignancy

Author:Shelley Winters

“All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered - no laughter, no tears, no purgation.”

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Book:A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

Source: A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

“Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.”

Believe Moving Actors Loses Audience Cry Tears Theater Believe In Me Listeners

Book:Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five

Source: Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five

“I love skating. I love the speed, the power, the excitement, the feeling that --- even for just a moment --- I can defy gravity and fly through the air. And I love the way that a great skating performance, like any work of art, can move an audience to laughter or tears.”

Way Art I Can Moments Feelings Moving Audience Air Tears Laughter Performances Speed Excitement Works Of Art Gravity Skating

Book:Boitano's Edge: Inside The Real World Of Figure Skating

Source: Boitano's Edge: Inside The Real World Of Figure Skating

“I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.”

Thinking Facts Film Moving Audience Comedy New York Tears Kings Speech Laughter London Uplifting Toronto

Author:Tom Hooper