Blaise Pascal Quotes

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.

We must put ourselves in the place of those who are to hear us

I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them.

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

The same basic tools we've used for thousands of years to connect with people, to draw them in and to hold their attention will always work, even if we're telling our stories 140 characters at a time.

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.

I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

You never know what the public is going to respond to or relate to.

Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

Comedians like to see people smile. With acting, I love giving people a feeling, an emotion. I like to give people a feeling. When they come away from my scene, I want them to think.

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

I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.

No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.

I think the thing that is meaningful is when I can tell that someone's been affected by the movie or by anything I made.

To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic.

If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.