Ed Schultz Quotes

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

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

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.

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

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.

Music is a great catalyst for emotion because it gets to your core.

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 can be so blown away by story lines.

People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.

Traveling around the country, meeting fans and hearing their stories in person and on my radio show has reenergized my commitment to creating honest and inspirational content that not only serves my own creative purposes but can help and touch others as well.

The humor and emotion of the 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman' theme makes me cry every time I watch it, and that deep emotion is something we'd love to do on the show. If we can make you cry, we always try to. And 'Once,' when it's at its best, is emotional and fun.

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

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

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

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

There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.

The best way to get people to connect with an issue is to humanize it. You can do so much more powerfully with music and touch the heart.

Music inspires some feeling in you. That's the same way I think about Uber.

It takes two guys to tell a story, paint a picture, so our audience can be entertained and brought into the match. You need to suck people in emotionally to a match, and it takes both parties to paint that picture.