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.
Stephen Sondheim
Related I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one ... WAYNE MCGREGOR I love it, I love being able to help. Just spending time talking to (the patients), or making them l... HEATHER PATTERSON She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING I love doing this show and I've been doing it for nine years. I love interacting with the audience, ... ANDRES FERNANDEZ Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the... STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. STEVE MARTIN Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke STEVE MARTIN What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. STEVE MARTIN I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do. MIRANDA COSGROVE I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar. KAKI KING She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making... L. M. MONTGOMERY Telling the truth and making someone cry is just as bad as telling a lie and making someone smile! UNKNOWN I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy... STEVE COOGAN You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself bes... TAMORA PIERCE I love waking up to Sunday morning pancakes. The whole process of making them, just out in the kitch... RONDA ROUSEY The world is so much busy of making money, and love doesn't make them happy! BRADLEY B. DALINA Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. DENNIS GABOR My parents always got a kick out of my art. I was always able to make them laugh. As I got older, I ... STEVE BREEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I mak... RICHARD FOREMAN You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's ... CALEB JOHNSON I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a m... PETER CUSHING Other people migrate everyday and decide to become citizens of the country where they live, and I do... HER EXCELLENCY MERLENE OTTEY The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the... SARAH HARRISON Music-making as a means of getting money is hell GUSTAV HOLST I plan to just keep making my music and if there's an audience for it, it will come. COWBOY TROY Number one, I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it's fun. It's exciting. Beyond... DEBBI FIELDS The San Francisco garter snake is very imperiled, and we're just making progress on getting them bac... AL DONNER Most of them are making as much as they were before, or more in some cases. ANDY SANTERRE To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of makin... ANDREA BOCELLI Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as ... BAHMAN GHOBADI You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the a... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as ... BILLY WILDER I love making friends. I usually prefer to make them out of plaster and give them funny looking hats... SHORT QUOTES One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really ... ACE FREHLEY We need to protect the kids by giving them something to do, ... (It's about) making them interested,... JAMES BROWN We were getting open, and finding the open shot. We were getting good shots. We just weren't making ... BRIAN URIG stand tall, smile bright, and let them wonder what secrets making you laugh! DAN BROWN The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them. ELLEN HOPKINS I like mash-ups, taking contemporary songs and making them old... old songs, making them new. BRIA SKONBERG As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making... MIKE NICHOLS Number one, I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it's fun. It's exciting... DEBBI FIELDS Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yoursel... DANNY BOYLE I was just taking my sketchbook to Kinko's and making photocopies and hand-assembling them - fol... ADRIAN TOMINE Destroying things is much easier than making them. SUZANNE COLLINS One of the nicest privileges as an actor is to know that you can move people in one moment, make the... GERARD BUTLER He’s a master at it, making me feel as though everything is my fault, making me feel worthless. PAULA HAWKINS I love fools experiments. I am always making them. CHARLES DARWIN I love the challenge of taking colors that are totally disparate and making them work together in an... CHRIS BENZ Beethoven was probably better known as an improviser until people started paying attention to his sy... CHRISTOPHER O'RILEY Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people b... TINA FEY Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children ... JILL GREENBERG People can call in ... to get assistance making reports, filling out paperwork and just helping them... COURTNEY LANGNER You have to laugh about things. Knowing full well, they are going to be a little nervous. You just h... BOBBY MEACHAM I love making people laugh. And I love laughing. KEVIN HART Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audi... DAVID CRONENBERG It's a tremendous feeling walking on to a set with a live audience and making them laugh, but I ... JULIA SAWALHA Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them... DANA SPIOTTA I love animated movies in general. I like making them. ABIGAIL BRESLIN I love fools' experiments. I am always making them. CHARLES DARWIN It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the p... DONALD RUMSFELD I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs. BARRY GIBB For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening... JIM GAFFIGAN I love making people laugh. EVE ARDEN It has always been my dream to take my turn at the most respected concert hall in the world. As enor... LEA SALONGA They taught me different was wrong. ANI DIFRANCO I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed wit... CHANNING TATUM Foster showed in that game he is capable of making plays when he has to make them. He is also capabl... BLAINE HATHCOCK We played much better defense against them in the first half and we kept them from making runs and f... LYNN PLETT We were making shots in the second and third. We had good looks in the fourth. We just weren't makin... TOMMY ALDRIDGE Experience is making mistakes and learning from them. BILL ACKMAN I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the... SAM RAIMI What's kept me sane is I still love making music, and I always have my ear to the street, BRET MICHAELS The fashion industry has a responsibility to represent a healthy image of women, but to start weighi... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG We keep making simple mistakes we shouldn't be making and we're getting punished by them. It seemed ... ALEX BRANNAN My passion is films and making them. AKKINENI NAGARJUNA I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them. EDWARD BURNS We proved these boys never needed any improper money. You'll see them making music and getting on th... GERALD SHARGEL Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown. R. L. STINE I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things. STACEY BENDET You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as l... LIZ WILLIAMS I'm just happy to be honored as someone who's making music. LIL JON My heart was an onion making me cry. ERIC PUCHNER Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in ... JAY-Z It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal tas... DONALD RUMSFELD Tom is quite an accomplished amateur chef. I wouldn't be surprised if he took over food preparation ... PAUL SLATTERY It's getting them to understand that to do an act of kindness, and making someone smile, and (asking... SABINE HART I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up ... BOBBY FLAY With making changes, the difficult part of trying to implement a new way, idea or thought, is gettin... ANTHONY LICCIONE That might be one of the only times I've seen Carly cry. Letting down the team and making them run r... DONNA MOIR I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir," she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them f... SARA SHERIDAN I was much more interested in making things than in designing them. MARC NEWSON I have been an assistant long enough to know that you don't stop making suggestions if your suggesti... BRENDAN MALONE Making a big hit, ... An interception is pretty good. But I like to make a big hit and let them know... JOSEPH PIERCE My son's see me as their hero, if they only knew how they have saved me making them the real hero's SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit... MARK FRAUENFELDER We have learned the hard way that making them float on water is not a good idea. HALEY BARBOUR I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of a... WILLIAM SCOTT We're making a movie, and I think we're making a really good movie. When it comes out, if they still... DANIEL CRAIG The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them. KARL KRAUS
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