Robin Ince Quotes

I want to entertain and inspire.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

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.

I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

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

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes.

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.

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it's an honor. It's just an honor to be a comedian.

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

I always tell people this - when you start wrestling, don't forget that part you liked as a child. If you can keep a bit of that in your act, you can keep a bigger audience.

I look for good scripts, not anything. It should inspire me, and the audience should like it.

Great theater continues to bind us, one to the other, and most of us will travel far and wide to see a good story told well.

When I listen to a basic thought, I try to visualise the cinema in it. Sometimes it is dark, sometimes boyish, sometimes amateurish. It is a trial and error method. But the bottom line is that I want to entertain the audience.

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

I'm very creative, intuitive - I like to entertain.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

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.

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.