Ethan Coen Quotes

As an actor, you generally want to see the other actor's face.

I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

If you're in a room and can be seen by actors, you need to understand that you can be felt by them.

I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.

The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.

Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by silence, because they are so skillful, so gifted, that they understand without talking too much.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

The connect that I have with the audience comes from my hard work and sincerity towards my craft and also because of the opportunities that I have had. I have been able to engage with my audiences. They observe my performances minutely. They think I will do some magic on screen. They like me because I don't do over-the-top acting.

I'm able to look the person acting across from me and respond to that. There are times when it becomes so lonely and painful, but I think I'm able to overcome them because I realize that the more fiercely you prepare for a role, the more the audience can feel it.

What I love about the theater is that you know who you're acting for: your audience. And the thing I find really hard in film is, you don't. The audience is invisible. And we're sitting there, hoping there's other people out there.

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.

I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.