Kelly Lynch Quotes

I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I want to entertain.

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael Caine a wonderful actor?' then I've failed.

I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.

You go to a theater, you're in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don't really know how many children they have or what their father's nickname might be; you don't have references and databases and rumors and half-truths - you're just transported by their storytelling.

I do try to entertain.

It takes two guys to tell a story, paint a picture, so our audience can be entertained and brought into the match. You need to suck people in emotionally to a match, and it takes both parties to paint that picture.

At the end of the day, whether it's on film or on stage or for a crowd of however many at Kenwood House, my job is to make sure people have a good time and come away with a feeling and a story.

When I came to Mumbai from Dubai to become an actor, I used to entertain people at parties by showing some card tricks.

Actors are the most important. Performance is what matters. Nothing matters more than the actors; they have to perform. No one else can give life to the characters. Audiences must believe the characters as real and the moments as real.

The bottom line is we go to theatre to vicariously spend time with really intense characters.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

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