Audience Quotes - Page 3

• I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Writing, Views, Trials

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• As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member

  Tommy Shaw

  Artist, Play, Band

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• I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage.

  Loretta Swit

  Character, People, Flying

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• As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

  Ajay Devgan

  Writing, Giving, Scripts

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• In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.

  Ajay Devgan

  Different, South

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• An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.

  Desi Arnaz

  Laughing, Important, Bigs

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.

  Andre Kostelanetz

  Advantage, Conductor, Seeing

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• That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

  Gene Siskel

  Movie, Giving, Trying

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• Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.

  Wayne Coyne

  Running, Artist, Different

  "The Flaming Lips Interview From Noise11.com Archives". Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.

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• I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

  Anjelica Huston

  Character, Scripts, Shows

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• I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

  Bill Wyman

  Shadow, Shy, Adulation

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• When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we've been able to do that.

  Jensen Ackles

  Thinking, Missing, Able

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• If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.

  Mark Russell

  Quiet, Silent, Ifs

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• To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

  Bobby Vinton

  Play, Years, People

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• You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

  Anna Held

  Host

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• Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.

  Robert Teeter

  Country, Doe, Facts

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• The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

  Theodore Bikel

  Air, Play, Faults

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• Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

  Patti LuPone

  Thinking, Misfits, Theater

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• When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!

  Glenn Hughes

  Sight, People, Singing

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• If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Vacuums, Feedback, Performers

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• A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Air, Needs, Shows

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• There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

  William Gaddis

  Reading, Standing Alone, Tiresome

  William Gaddis (2002). “The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.89, Penguin

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• An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

  Don Van Vliet

  Stage, Lifts

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• I love to entertain an audience.

  George Peppard

  Host

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• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

  Dale Carnegie

  Purpose, Saws, Heard

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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