Captivate Quotes

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.

When I get on stage, I try to win my pay: to please and that people leave satisfied... being seductive has given me good results.

You have to keep the audience glued by hook or crook.

My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.

I didn't realize when I brought him back here that you'd inflict more damage." I said, once I'd finished the story. "I was defending your honor." Adrian gave me that devil-may-care smile that always managed to both infuriate and captivate me. "Pretty manly, huh?

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

I always knew how to draw a crowd.

Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader's imagination through something as simple as words on paper, well, there's nothing more satisfying.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

It's a daunting task to create something that interests audiences.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

You transfix me quite.

If you're going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If you're going to make a scary movie, scare people well.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

I can't titillate the audience just for the sake of doing it.

What I do is create an aura of mystery.

Audience come with expectations, and our job is to engage them for two hours. We take efforts to make the story more interesting and also present it in such a way that it is liked by all the audience.

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.