Quotes About Engagement

I love working with an actress that you can just look at them and be able to react with your eyes and not have to do much else.

We learnt a lot from doing Panto, actually back when we were still doing 'SMTV: Live.' We learnt how far we could push things and the show was all the better for that. I think that taught us you really have to know your audience because you could see how they would react to things.

You want to be on the offense and make the defense react. I feel like that.

You just never know how an audience is going to react.

Acting to me is always reacting.

All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care.

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

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.

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

I'm always an advocate of 'acting is reacting,' which can be difficult.

The key to acting is less acting and just reacting.

If the fans are making a noise and reacting, then you're doing a good job.

I do not keep a track of numbers as such, but I am definitely aware of how a film of mine is doing when it is playing in theatres. More than the numbers, it is important to know how the audience is reacting to the film.

Only one time have I had Twitter open when I was doing a game, and after that I took it off my phone. I said, 'This is so counterproductive. I'm actually reacting to people reacting to what I'm saying, and it can't work that way.'

The best way to test whether you are saying the truth or not - if you say something and people don't react then it's not the real truth. But if people start reacting then what you are saying has got an element of truth.

I like to do something that gets a real reaction from people.

As an artist, I want a reaction.

I think somebody getting repulsed is a positive reaction. Any reaction is positive.

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

I'd rather create something that gives people a very strong reaction than create a show that someone looks at and says, 'Hmm. Fine.'

Have you ever heard someone tell a story but felt they are just mouthing the words without being emotionally connected? When you do this, you often create a more negative reaction than if you hadn't told a story at all. That's because others can see that you're just going through the motions.

I like to say whatever comes to mind when I am in the ring and work off the reaction from the crowd.

You can tell on-stage when a joke's starting to lose its pop. It doesn't mean people don't want to hear it anymore; it means I don't want to do it anymore. Because I want to move on to something that has a knee-jerk reaction just like you get when you tell somebody a joke that they've never heard.

As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them.