A Quote by Martin Landau

All an audience wants to believe is that what's going on is happening for the first time.

Martin Landau

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Martin Landau
American - Actor
June 20, 1928 - July 15, 2017

Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play because stuff will happen, right then and there. The audience wants to believe that what's going on is happening for the first time, ever. That's what acting is. That's what good scene writing is.

Martin Landau

A good director creates a playground for actors, and lets them go. The trick for a good director is in casting properly, and creating the playroom, and then they'll get stuff that they don't expect, and can't even direct. All the audience wants to believe is that whatever is happening, it is happening for the first time. They want to see the people within the work exchanging dialogue and action in that moment. There are not a lot of actors that can do that.

Martin Landau

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

Stanley Baldwin

Now I believe that people need to understand what's happening in my campaign, and they're going to get three or four snapshots of that, with plenty of time before the first disclosure happens in June.

Craig Benson

One of the great tools we use in acting is the idea of immediacy, that the audience gets to see you witness something apparently for the first time, so you create a lot of tools to kind of trick yourself into making it appear something is happening for the first time.

Billy Crudup

Every four years, the eyes of America become riveted on the national election returns. But God's first concern during any political season is not the same as our first concern - it is not about what is happening, or going to happen, in the White House. God's first concern is what is happening, or not happening, in His house.

Tony Evans

If you can truly believe what you are pretending to do is really happening, then your audience will believe it, too.

Richard Osterlind

I think every theater in America wants a younger audience... and you can't just hope to have a younger audience, you have to program things that audience is going to connect with.

Diane Paulus

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn on that.

James Purdy

I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.

Debi Mazar

This is a country that I love and that I believe in, but at the same time also believe that you should, as a part of this country, have the right to be able to talk very clearly about the issues that are happening, going on.

Cheo Hodari Coker

When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.

Dan Graham

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

Tom Sizemore

Remakes are happening for a long time, and it is happening in the West, too. I don't believe anything is wrong in that.

Bobby Deol

When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading of the script is so important because you're experiencing it all for the first time, and it's then that you really know if it's going to work or not.

David Tennant

If I knew what the audience wants to hear I would be the richest guy in the world! There are a lot of people who think they know what the audience wants but are sadly rejected.

Mahesh Manjrekar

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