Matt McGorry Quotes

A lot of times you have very ego-driven actors and actresses that stay in their little world, and when you have a scene together, your worlds meet for a moment. But I don't think that makes for a very good cohesion.

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

I always like to have some type of connection with the crowd.

One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

That audience is there for me.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

Understanding is a two-way street.

You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.

Until you meet, you will never understand each other.

If you want help from partners, that means listening to them every once in a while.

I feel like it's very important to connect with the people who are passionate about what I'm doing.

I think there's plenty of folks out there, whether they agree with me or not, they appreciate the fact that you're listening to them. And I think that's how you win.