Ricky Steamboat Quotes

You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.

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

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

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

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

The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.

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.

It was very hard not to get utterly and wholeheartedly drawn into the stories on 'The Gift.'

People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.

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

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

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

It doesn't matter how beautifully a film is photographed. The acting tells your story. It's what people relate to. If you don't believe the characters, it doesn't work.

I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we've ever invented has quite done before.

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

I tell stories. Because I believe you can do things that joke tellers can't do, and that is, bring your audience along.

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.

I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.