Elisha Cuthbert Quotes

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think.

I want to make people feel something - that's really cool.

I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings.

Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

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

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

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.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

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

It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.

I want you to laugh and cry. That's what I do.

Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that's why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world.

People have cried at a couple of shows. To think that someone could do that for me... Jesus Christ. That's a crazy sign.

In film, there's always this looking for the 'If you lay down and burst into tears, you did a good job.'

You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will not care by what road you brought them there; and they will never reproach you for having excited their emotions in spite of dramatic rules.

I know when I watch certain actors or if I watch Thom Yorke sing on stage, I'm affected by it emotionally. I guess that's what we are all striving for in art but that's such a beautiful thing that happens between two people that may never even meet. So when you do get to meet someone who was affected in that way, it's awesome.

When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.

The thing that I enjoy about being an actor and the thing that I enjoy about the arts in general is the ability to make the audience feel an emotion that they weren't intending to feel before they went in.

I think, if you can, it's OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.

I love when people laugh. I love when they cry, I like a story to say something, and I hope the audience feels happier leaving the theatre than when it came in.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.