Spectator Quotes

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius

Age, Good, True

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
Jackie Robinson

Life, Opinion, Whole

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
Jack Kevorkian

Sports, Happy, Working

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.
Lou Holtz

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
E. M. Forster

Work, Art, Person

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
Jean Cocteau

Everybody, Actor, Nobody

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Love, Work, Movies

The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.
Antonio Banderas

Work, Time, Read

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
Bernard Malamud

Everything, Looking, Writer

There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Family, Person, Together

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
Manuel Puig

Mind, Understand, Same

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.
Michael Haneke

Thinking, Give, Film

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.
Michael Haneke

Home, Society, Different

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.
Michael Haneke

Yourself, Laughter, Two

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.
Galen Rowell

Spiritual, Emotional, Feeling

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
Michelangelo Antonioni

Film, Space, Empty

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
Howard Hodgkin

Words, Between, Picture

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Wendell Phillips

Truth, Through, Opinion

There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway.
Paul Reiser

Woman, Times, Less

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
Kenneth Clark

Art, Bad, Feeling

It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.
Pedro Almodovar

Movies, Enjoy, Before

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
Bert Williams

Humor, Real, Laugh

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
Frederik Pohl

Science, Book, Chasing

Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.
Krzysztof Kieslowski

Someone, Become, Door

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
Bridget Riley

Between, Wanted, Picture

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