Captive Audience Quotes

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Sunday nights, we have dinner together, and we play games on game night; once a year, we get away to ski - when you get kids out of their home environment, they're forced to be with you, and you have a captive audience.

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had seized you by the shoulder! It should impress you like reality!

When a play is really cooking, there's nothing like it.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

I tried to do a puppet show on the streets, and I wasn't a very good street performer. But I found that I could stand in one place in Central Park and bounce a soap bubble on my arm, and I didn't have to gather a crowd for the puppet show. I had a crowd.

If you are true at telling the story, it will get a good audience, and the required numbers.

The right to engage in voluntary prayer or religious discussion free from discrimination does not include the right to have a captive audience listen or to compel other students to participate.

You have to keep the audience glued by hook or crook.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Dead or alive, interesting people are interesting people.

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.

The most important thing is that you don't bore the audience.

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.

I believe words should amaze or amuse. Only then will the listener want to understand the meaning of the song.

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.

Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.