Michael Beschloss Quotes

You can make people laugh, but having them really want to hear what you have to say, that takes trust and time.

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

One of my true dreams is to do a sports talk radio show and take calls.

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.

There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.'

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.

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 great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.

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

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

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.

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

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience.

It's my job to take the fans sitting at home on their couch and put them in my shoes.

I think Hollywood is an incredible tool to teach people. It brings stories and information to the television screen, to the movie theater screens, that people get to empathize with.