Emma Donoghue Quotes

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

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

Television is so neat; I grew up doing theater, and I've done a bit of film. I know I'm stating the obvious, but it's a unique storytelling form in that it's able to constantly evolve.

In sports entertainment, you can take your time and digest what's going on along with the audience.

I think my goal has always been to remain entertaining. Above all else, remain entertaining.

There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them.

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

At the end of the day, it is just a movie, and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience, and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.

Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do in 'True Blood' is shoot all of our stunts in camera. Instead of doing some kind of visual effect, we try to make it happen.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

I think that's what we're all trying to do as actors, is create some sort of passion from people and allow them to have something to really care about and something they enjoy and look forward to on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, whatever it is, where you get to sit down and escape.

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

I love to entertain an audience.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

I just want my audiences to be entertained and feel like they're part of the show. I want to show them a good time and create an experience they're going to enjoy.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'