Mary Pickford Quotes

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

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

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

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.

No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience.

Within a safe environment, the theater, you can have a big ride, big ups and downs, intensity, warmth, humanity, laughs, tears - you want that full range of emotion.

The bottom line is we go to theatre to vicariously spend time with really intense characters.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

I would just like to be able to give to people through acting. If I can entertain people by being somebody else and allow somebody to feel something, then that makes me feel good.

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Comedians like to see people smile. With acting, I love giving people a feeling, an emotion. I like to give people a feeling. When they come away from my scene, I want them to think.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

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

I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

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

We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.

Your job as an actor, I guess, is just to make people relate to the character.

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.