Public quotes

“People want to be disturbed when they go see a horrormovie.”
Eli Roth

“The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.”
George Jessel

“- Mary Austin: What's it like, singing for all those people?
- Freddie Mercury: When I know they're listening, when I know I really have them, I couldn't sing off-key if I tried. I am exactly the person I was always meant to be. I'm not afraid of anything... The only other time I ever feel that way is when I'm with you.”
Lucy Boynton - Mary Austin
Rami Malek - Freddie Mercury

“Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.”
Shelley Winters

“On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.”
Anthony Quinn

“Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.”
Michael Landon

“An audienceneeds something stronger than a pretty little love story. So, why shouldn't I write of monsters?”
Elsa Lanchester - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“In a way I feel completely frightened of dealing with other human beings at all, yet here I am sticking my face in front of a movie camera all the time.”
Will Patton

“I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it.”
Andrea Martin

“Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.”
Robert Morley

“A responsive audience is the best encouragement an actor can have.”
Al Jolson

“You can't protect the public by lying to them.”
David Duchovny - Fox Mulder

“You cannot go around telling people that there is a 100% chance that they're gonna die.”
Meryl Streep - President Orlean

“What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?”
Jennifer Ehle

“The stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that's part of the thrill. Anything can happen.”
Nina Arianda

“People don't stop watching when there's a conflict. They stop watching when there isn't one.”
John Lithgow - Roger Ailes

“The public can't stomach boldprose from a woman.”
Elizabeth McGovern - Elaine Mozell

“If there's nothing else, there's applause. I've listened backstage to people applaud. It's like - like waves of love coming over the footlights and wrapping you up. Imagine, to know every night that different hundreds of people love you. They smile, their eyes shine, you've pleased them. They want you. You belong. Just that alone is worth anything.”
Anne Baxter - Eve Harrington

“- Bernie Taupin: Don't you want to just sing without this ridiculous paraphernalia?
- Elton John: People don't pay to see Reg Dwight! They pay to see Elton John!”
Jamie Bell - Bernie Taupin
Taron Egerton - Elton John

“Those two fellows we created, they were nice, very nice people. They never get anywhere because they are both so dumb, but they don't know they're dumb. One of the reasons why people like us, I guess, is because they feel superior to us.”
Oliver Hardy

“He can give the audience pleasure just by walking across the floor.”
Gene Kelly On Fred Astaire

“They're in the business to make money. They gamble on people more than scripts because who knows what will capture the public's imagination.”

Norman Jewison

“It's a picture of yourself up there and if they don't like it, they don't like you.”

Martin Scorsese

“On Hollywood's theory that the audience knows best, the schoolboy's 'lousy' is the last word in dramatic criticism.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

“The only reason they come to see me is that I know life is great — and they know I know it.”
Clark Gable