Audience Quotes - Page 29

• The States still has the best audiences by far.

  Robin Trower

  States, Stills

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• I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

  Henry Rollins

  Smart, Moving, Cheerful

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• I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, People, England

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• Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.

  Henry Rollins

  Bunch

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• When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

  Shirley Temple

  Please, Performers

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• My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don't come now.

  Woody Allen

  Film, Has Beens

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• My progress reminded me of the horses in The Whip. They raced at the limit of their speed directly toward the audience. But they raced on a treadmill which canceled out their progress.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Horse, Progress, Limits

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

  Bernie Mac

  Thinking, Black, Littles

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• I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

  Bernie Mac

  Thinking, Tvs, Insult

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• The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

  Bernie Mac

  Comedy, One Thing

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• You need an audience to help you figure out what's working and what's worth putting on your album or your special - or even just what's worth touring with.

  Demetri Martin

  Special, Albums, Needs

  "Demetri Martin. Standup Comedian". Interview with Liz Lanier, ninertimes.com. September 27, 2012.

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• How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.

  Demetri Martin

  Creative, Looks, Sketchbooks

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• Hopefully the process is to spot things that would be grist for the funny mill. In some respects, the heavier subjects are the ones that are most loaded with opportunity because they have the most - you know, the difference between potential and kinetic energy? - they have the most potential energy, so to delve into that gives you the largest combustion, the most interest. I don't mean for the audience. I mean for us. Everyone here is working too hard to do stuff we don't care about.

  Jon Stewart

  Mean, Opportunity, Differences

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every new routine I have ever written and performed probably occurred extemporaneously. Then after you have fleshed it out and tried it out in front of a number of audiences and it works, you put it down on paper.

  Bob Newhart

  Numbers, Routine, Paper

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• I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its own. I focus on that living hydra in the dark.

  Emo Philips

  Dark, Thinking, People

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• It's easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.

  Doug Benson

  Comedy, Reactions, Easier

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• When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

  Ray Romano

  Kids, Validation, Comedian

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• You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.

  Don Rickles

  Energy, Excitement, Loses

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 24, 2007.

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• I'm wearing a new perfume that I should recommend to the women in the audience; it's called 'Tester.

  Carol Leifer

  Should, Perfume, Testers

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• You've got to change with the public's taste.

  Nat King Cole

  Taste, Analyze This

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• The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

  Nat King Cole

  School, Hard Times, Chance

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• Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making that film. If you can get the audience to feel emotion for a character that in the previous film you despised utterly and were terrified by, then that's a cinematic arc.

  James Cameron

  Character, Purpose, Emotion

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• I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like.

  Tim Curry

  Character

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• The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?

  Chris Hughes

  Thinking, Might, Size

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• I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience of men. If this work is considered incorrect, all the better, for my attempts aim to undermine that singular pontificating male voice-over which correctly instructs our pleasures and histories or lack of them.

  Barbara Kruger

  Men, Voice, Males

  Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.220, MIT Press

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