Ryan North Quotes

Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

I never focus on success; I only focus on listening to my online community and being consistent.

I think the emotional appeal of a platform is what works. I think the old-media entities still have not figured out that part of the game plan.

It doesn't matter to me how I look on screen. What matters to me is how I connect with the audience.

We have a wonderful head of social media and community, Danika Harrod, who has a knowledge of community that's really authentic, and she just loves connecting with people and she's very empathetic to what fans might want.

We can talk and get feedback about our videos directly from some of our biggest fans. We can't stress the importance of that connection enough.

If you show you're human and have something to say, people will connect with you.

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.

My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?

I want viewers to relate to me on a different level, not just a sexual level.

I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

I want my audience to be my friends - that is when they will get the best comedy. If they see me as a performer, they won't get the best show.

Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnerability that makes it possible for people to empathize with you.

The ability to touch people and literally change lives is incredibly relevant in a consumer-products company.

I love high concept movies, but they can only work if the source of inspiration is really human - if they're driven by pain and strong emotions. Once you connect the audience with that, then I swear you can take them on the craziest journey, and they'll come along.

For us, creativity means thinking about the lives of our audience and how to connect with them.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

At their core, an influencer creates an empowering human connection.