Public quotes

“Actors live in a cocoon of praise. They never meet the people who don't like them.”
Robert Morley

“I know audiences feed on crap, but I cannot believe we are so lacking that we cannot dish it up to them with some trace of originality.”
Darryl Francis Zanuck

“Public taste is an ascending spiral.”
Darryl Francis Zanuck

“The moment an audience starts to itch around you have lost them.”
Fritz Lang

“The most beautiful thing of all is the complete stillness of an audience so intent that it hardly breathes.”
Charles Laughton

“Would people applaud me if I were a good plumber?”
Marlon Brando

“I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.”
John Huston

“By the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.”
Rod Steiger

“Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.”
James Stewart

“If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.”
Jack Lemmon

“I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.”
Alan Ladd

“I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.”
Alan Ladd

“As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.”
Alan Ladd

“Elvis Presley – bloated, over the hill, adolescent entertainer, suddenly drawing people into Las Vegas – had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.”
Marlon Brando On Elvis Presley

“All you owe the public is a good performance.”
Humphrey Bogart

“If you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.”
Morgan Freeman

“Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies.”
Johnny Depp

“A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying.”
Christian Bale

“It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.”
Christian Bale

“You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.”
Christian Bale

“It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.”
Christian Bale

“The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.”
Heath Ledger

“I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“The bottom line is, when it comes to an actor and his performance, whether nominated or not, it simply has to do with whether that character had enough resonance with the audience.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“I never had an ambition higher than to make people laugh. It's the easiest thing in the world to make them cry.”
Eddie Cantor