Marlon Brando Quotes

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

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

Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

Your job as a superstar is to manipulate the audience and try to tell your story. I like the dynamic of the audience.

For me, acting is like a pool you dive into. If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again.

I'm an entertainer: I want to make people laugh, cry. I want to move them.

People think our business is this completely fictional world of big guys in tight clothes with no brains. That's not the way it is; this is a psychology-driven business. You have to take people on an emotional ride without using words.

It's such a rare and rewarding thing to be in control of space and time for two hours a night, to go through a journey and take the audience along. There's nothing quite like it.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.

Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.