A Quote by Stephen Sondheim

I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.

Stephen Sondheim

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Stephen Sondheim
American - Composer
Born: March 22, 1930

When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief.

Helena Bonham Carter

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

William Friedkin

It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

David Copperfield

Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.

Israel Horovitz

I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort of artistic medium I think, of our time, is film. I really feel that. I mean to me, there's nothing else out there, where I can sort of suspend disbelief for two hours.

Leonardo DiCaprio

In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.

John Allen Paulos

You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.

Adam McKay

As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder whether knowing too much about someone's personal life interrupts an audience's ability to suspend disbelief, to really invest in the characters. My preference would always be that people engage with the work.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

Simon Rattle

I always like to have faith that an audience will suspend their disbelief, if you present it to them in the right way. I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box. I think it's just how you present the idea.

Tom Mison

I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are.

Simon Neil

Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

R. A. Salvatore

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

Pete Townshend

No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.

Hal Rothman

Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!

Andrew Lord

I think when you're happy, emotions are right near the top - mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily... and I beg for forgiveness easily.

Nell Carter

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