They're the best critics. Workshops are good, and drama teachers are fine, but the best is the audience. And even better if they're paying!
Interpretation
The audience's feedback is the most valuable form of criticism for performers, especially if they are financially invested.
George Takei emphasizes the importance of the audience's perspective in the performing arts. While workshops and drama teachers provide valuable insights, the true test of a performance comes from the audience, whose reception ultimately determines the success of the artistic endeavor, especially when they have chosen to pay for their experience, highlighting their commitment and investment in the outcome.
In practice
Use this quote at the beginning of a theater workshop to emphasize the importance of audience feedback.
I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When I was a teenager, I had many after-dinner conversations with my father about our internment. He told me that after we were taken away, they came to our house and took everything. We were literally stripped clean.
I'd like to think that, when I explain it, that Mr. Trump will understand marriage is defined by two people who love each other, commit to each other, and will care for each other through thick and thin.
Back in the day, coming out was something very personal. You began by acknowledging the truth, first to yourself, then to close family and friends. Those of us more in the public spotlight, though, also had to 'come out' to the press.
My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans.
I'm especially concerned about the future of this country, because I'm concerned about the gay people of the future. We need to ensure their good life by registering to vote.
In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.
I do not aspire to be in fashion. For what is in fashion, goes out of fashion _x000D_ If, on the contrary, your work is contested today, it doesn't matter. _x000D_ For when it is finally understood, it will be for eternity.
Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.
All art is a kind of confession.
All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.
When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.
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