Quotes About Listening

Listening is the most under rated part of my profession.

Even though I was a rock 'n' roll fan, hearing the raw blues was like listening to music on a much deeper kind of level.

The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.

My music library has about every genre of music possible. I've really gotten into Ray LaMontagne, He makes amazing music, so I listen to him, and he's a great artist.

I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.

I always seek the time to talk to people who are reaching out for help because sometimes you just need that one person to tell you everything is going to be OK.

My husband has a gift for reaching out to people in need. I always look over and see him connecting to someone who needs to talk or needs some support.

When you listen, as a human being and an actor, you can react authentically.

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself to create, and to be generating information, and trying to be funny, but if you just listen to what's being said to you, and then react honestly, you generally get better results.

If you feel like you're doing terrible in a scene, that usually means that you're not listening because you're too preoccupied with yourself... you're not listening to your scene partner. If you listen, you're naturally going to get that response that the camera's going to pick up because you just react.

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.

When you see bad acting, that's usually what it is - they're not listening to the other characters. It's always hard with first-time actors to get them in that moment where they are really listening to the other characters and reacting to the other characters.

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.

The key to acting is less acting and just reacting.

I learnt how acting is more about listening to the other person; it is about reaction. You learn to be a foil, and that helped when it came to directing.

Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in my mind, was impossible. I learned everything through listening.

I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time.

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it.

I just think there's a real art in listening. I need to listen.

In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing, I just let it all out.