Tom Green Quotes

I want to be embraced by the audience, but it's fun to stir up the pot.

I think somebody getting repulsed is a positive reaction. Any reaction is positive.

I do say things in a way that is going to elicit a response from people.

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.

There's so much to argue about. That was the goal with 'Really Really.' Somebody asked me once, 'How should I feel when I leave?' and I said, 'Hopefully, you're talkative.' I don't really care if you're happy or sad or loved it or hated it or hate me. The goal is that you have something to say, that you have a response.

The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction.

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.

They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.

I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

There is always something wonderful about a live audience.

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

I'm well aware that no matter how big of a jerk I am, some people will cheer me, and no matter what I do, some people will boo me, and that's fine. I just need to elicit emotion. That's all I care about.

I like to challenge the audience. I want people to feel discomfort.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.

I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.