Greg Mottola Quotes

I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.

There's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience.

I really enjoy connecting with the audience.

My goal's always to connect and relate to my audience. I want them to leave my show feeling like they got to know me better - not only that, but like we could be friends. I want people to leave going, 'Oh my gosh, I could totally hang out with her!'

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

The eyes are so telling. That's how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.

Tap into people's emotions. We've all been put to sleep by a speaker who just gives the facts. You must tap into people's feelings.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

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

When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

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.

I want to work on projects that I can connect with and those that establish a connectivity with the audience too.

If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

I always like to have some type of connection with the crowd.

You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something funny than to read something tragic. It just goes over better because you have a finite amount of time with somebody. Of course, in a book, you have a lot of time. But you still do want to make a certain impression right when you begin.

I think human beings probably resonate with audiences more than bunnies, but who knows?

What resonates with people is that it feels like you actually are thinking of them.