Quotes About Hypnotic power

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

Once you've hypnotised someone once, you can pretty much put them under instantly any time you meet them afterwards.

Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder--which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expression.

For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore.