Posts Tagged ‘Audience’

December 27th, 2011 Actress, Author Types, Authors, H No Comments »

Halle Berry

In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
Halle Berry

My whole life I’ve had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
Halle Berry

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I’m the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don’t have a cherry.
Halle Berry

Anytime you put a movie out it’s subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
Halle Berry

Beauty is not just physical.
Halle Berry

I don’t know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
Halle Berry

The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We’re still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.
Halle Berry

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there’s no way you could be a good winner.
Halle Berry

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that’s what is required of the industry today.
Halle Berry

I don’t see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
Halle Berry

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.
Halle Berry

You have to get the audience invested even if you’re doing something that they think is dumb, it’s kind of what these movies are all about.
Halle Berry

December 27th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Playwright, T No Comments »

Tristan Bernard

To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.
Tristan Bernard

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised – but by things that they expect.
Tristan Bernard

 

July 15th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Musician, T No Comments »

Tony Bennett

I think one of the reasons I’m popular again is because I’m wearing a tie. You have to be different.
Tony Bennett

I’ve been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I’ve been sold out all over the world.
Tony Bennett

More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.
Tony Bennett

The young people look great on television. They’re youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven’t got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.
Tony Bennett

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I’m a singer. So I sing.
Tony Bennett

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
Tony Bennett

To work is to feel alive.
Tony Bennett

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.
Tony Bennett

June 23rd, 2011 Actress, Author Types, Authors, I No Comments »

Ingrid Bergman

There are advantages to being a star though – you can always get a table in a full restaurant.
Ingrid Bergman

I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.
Ingrid Bergman

If you took acting away from me, I’d stop breathing.
Ingrid Bergman

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

Be yourself. The world worships the original.
Ingrid Bergman

Cancer victims who don’t accept their fate, who don’t learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
Ingrid Bergman

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn’t choose acting. It chose me.
Ingrid Bergman

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
Ingrid Bergman

I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?
Ingrid Bergman

It is not whether you really cry. It’s whether the audience thinks you are crying.
Ingrid Bergman

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage – ever at all. I’ve had it. Three times is enough.
Ingrid Bergman

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
Ingrid Bergman

I’ve gone from saint to whore and back to saint again, all in one lifetime.
Ingrid Bergman

June 20th, 2011 Actor, Author Types, Authors, E No Comments »

Edgar Bergen

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn’t have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
Edgar Bergen

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
Edgar Bergen

Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
Edgar Bergen

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
Edgar Bergen

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
Edgar Bergen

I’ve never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
Edgar Bergen

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
Edgar Bergen

OK, magic boy, let’s see who you really are.
Edgar Bergen

Show me where Stalin is buried and I’ll show you a Communist Plot.
Edgar Bergen

Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
Edgar Bergen

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn’t a tourist.
Edgar Bergen

June 16th, 2011 A, Actress, Author Types, Authors No Comments »

Annette Bening

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that’s true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.
Annette Bening

My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing.
Annette Bening

The tension I feel is the moment they say, ‘Action!’ Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.
Annette Bening

I think we as celebrities have a lot more control.
Annette Bening

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of ‘how do we find our authentic selves?’ And that we all – whether we’re actors or not – perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?
Annette Bening

And if there’s anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, “Show me something I don’t know about. Show me something I haven’t seen.”
Annette Bening

I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband’s lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.
Annette Bening

By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions – and that happened in my school too.
Annette Bening

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.
Annette Bening

We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that’s something I’ve experienced, but we’re all just doing the best we can and we’re all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.
Annette Bening

Yes, I know I’ve played these women, but I’m not really conniving at all.
Annette Bening

I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They’re wonderful. They’re such interesting human beings. I just love it. I’m lucky.
Annette Bening

Acting is not about being famous, it’s about exploring the human soul.
Annette Bening

I didn’t do a movie until I was almost 30. I’m grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff.
Annette Bening

Oh, honey, I’m from Oklahoma! This is who I am – middle-class all the way!
Annette Bening

I didn’t picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, “Well somebody has to be in them,” so maybe I could do that eventually. It’s all been a surprise.
Annette Bening

Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn’t mean that I’ll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: “Isn’t that that Bening woman?”
Annette Bening

May 1st, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Musician, S No Comments »

Shirley Bassey

I hate it when people come up to me when I’m eating.
Shirley Bassey

It’s hard for a man to live with a successful woman – they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.
Shirley Bassey

No wedding bells for me anymore. I’ve been happily married to my profession for years.
Shirley Bassey

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
Shirley Bassey

I’m a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.
Shirley Bassey

You don’t get older, you get better.
Shirley Bassey

I’ve always been the breadwinner and men don’t like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.
Shirley Bassey

Diamonds never leave you… men do!
Shirley Bassey

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn’t like it a bit.
Shirley Bassey

April 14th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, J, Poet No Comments »

John Barton

Poets can’t resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
John Barton

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows.
John Barton

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.
John Barton

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
John Barton

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.
John Barton

Reading should be a repeat performance.
John Barton

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.
John Barton

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
John Barton

I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.
John Barton

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
John Barton

The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.
John Barton

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.
John Barton

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don’t want our lives to end.
John Barton

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
John Barton

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
John Barton

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.
John Barton

I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada’s most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.
John Barton

I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.
John Barton

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
John Barton

We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.
John Barton

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
John Barton

Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
John Barton

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.
John Barton

March 31st, 2011 A, Author Types, Authors, Vice President No Comments »

Alben W. Barkley

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
Alben W. Barkley

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.
Alben W. Barkley

March 22nd, 2011 Actor, Author Types, Authors, J No Comments »

Javier Bardem

The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that’s it. When you’re not working, you don’t have an obligation to be public.
Javier Bardem

I have this problem with violence. I’ve only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It’s called Perdita Durango. It’s a Spanish movie. I’m very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.
Javier Bardem

I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don’t watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.
Javier Bardem

Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it’s not like it’s a bible.
Javier Bardem

An award doesn’t necessarily make you a better actor.
Javier Bardem

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn’t a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.
Javier Bardem

What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe’s? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.
Javier Bardem

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who’s trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.
Javier Bardem

I think we are living in selfish times. I’m the first one to say that I’m the most selfish. We live in the so-called ‘first world,’ and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.
Javier Bardem

Celebrity is very weird.
Javier Bardem

Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.
Javier Bardem

I am always saying, ‘I don’t believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.’ And that’s true. If I ever get a phone call saying ‘Would you like to work with Al Pacino?’ I would go crazy.
Javier Bardem

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: ‘What is that doing there?’
Javier Bardem

But don’t call me an actor. I’m just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don’t say that what I am doing is art.
Javier Bardem

I do respect people’s faith, but I don’t respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
Javier Bardem

I don’t know how to drive a car.
Javier Bardem

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there’s curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn’t speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn’t felt in a while. But I like it.
Javier Bardem

My concern is to continue respecting my work as I’ve done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I’m strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.
Javier Bardem

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They’re to promote each other’s movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they’ll go to see them. It’s still the same.
Javier Bardem

Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don’t you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.
Javier Bardem

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That’s the only principle meaning of any award.
Javier Bardem

The only thing I can do is act, but it’s not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I’m a shy person, even if I don’t look it.
Javier Bardem

I truly don’t have any formula for the choices I make.
Javier Bardem

I used to be a good party boy. I’m old. I’m an old man. You pay the consequences. I’m just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.
Javier Bardem

When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: ‘How could I have done that?’ but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you’re 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: ‘Was I like that? Was I really like that?’
Javier Bardem

I want to act because I don’t know how to do anything else.
Javier Bardem

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It’s kind of a life-changing experience. But it can’t get better than this for any actor – this is like an opera.
Javier Bardem

This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can’t be.
Javier Bardem

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it’s only a movie.
Javier Bardem

I don’t really care where movies come from as long as they’re worth making.
Javier Bardem

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it’s boring.
Javier Bardem

My truth – what I believe – is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you’d better choose the question carefully.
Javier Bardem

Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that’s not fair. How can you tell what’s best and what’s worst from these awards? We’re talking about art.
Javier Bardem

Really, I don’t see this heart-throb thing at all.
Javier Bardem

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that’s what counts.
Javier Bardem

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.
Javier Bardem

I’ve always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.
Javier Bardem