Audience Quotes - Page 31

• In addition to listening to the audience's laugh, you want to listen to their silence. Is it bored or interested silence? The silence is quieter and filled with energy when they're interested. You can hear a pin drop. When they're bored, you can always hear it.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Bored, Laughing, Silence

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• Be prepared to cut your little extra lines that come after a big punchline and move on to the next joke or routine to give your set more punch and crispness. You can keep them in your set, but if the audience applauds your big line, don't do your tag when it dies down, just move on.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Moving, Cutting, Giving

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• An aspiring comedian must be determined to get to his or her true feelings on a subject and convey that to the audience. Figure out what you're feeling or interested in because the goal is to get the audience interested in what you're interested in. Good stand up comedy is drawing people into your head.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Drawing, People, Goal

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• When I've mentioned things that I thought only happened to me, or thoughts that I felt had only had crossed my mind, the audience response indicated that they seemed to have happened to, or been thought of by many people.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  People, Mind, Response

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• People wrestle alligators but not once has someone done it without an audience.

  Doug Stanhope

  People, Done, Alligators

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• 'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

  Idina Menzel

  Men, Thinking, Two

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• Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.

  Chris Tucker

  Keys, Stories, Might

  "Chris Tucker on Silver Linings Playbook and his intermittent film career". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 14, 2012.

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• When you're doing stand-up, you achieve an intimacy with the audience you can't get on TV. There's not a better feeling in the entire world then when you look out and see the audience is identifying with you.

  Bill Engvall

  Feelings, Looks, World

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• We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic posting of images but the democratic interpretation of images.

  Gilles Peress

  Mean, Age, Entering

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• I don't think people shouldn't try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• I'm close to my audience. I think I have more tools in my box than other guys who might try it. Also, I know how to do this stuff. I know how to write and shoot and edit. I'm technically adept and that helped with the website. You need a big skill set.

  Louis C. K.

  Writing, Thinking, Skills

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

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• I can feel how an audience is reacting when I'm on a stage, but when you are on stage, your perception is distorted. That's something you just have to know. It's like pilots that fly at high Gs and they lose, sometimes, consciousness and hand/eye coordination and they just have to know that that's going to happen. They have to be trained to not try to do too much while they are doing that. So when you are on stage, you have to be aware that you are wrong about how it feels a lot of times.

  Louis C. K.

  Eye, Hands, Perception

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• I don't feel those limits when I'm on stage. For some reason, audiences let me get away with things. Remember, it's all comedy. Words. Thoughts. All thoughts are safe and worth exploring.

  Louis C. K.

  Safe, Limits, Comedy

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• I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me to the audience as best I can.

  Iliza Shlesinger

  Writing, Ideas, Trying

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• It's a simple and an effective way of getting everyone on the same page, prepared and paying attention to the gag. People just get into that frame of mind of you doing impressions. It can take a minute or two for an audience to catch on when you aren't doing one.

  Frank Caliendo

  Simple, Two, People

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• With basketball, if a guy is having an off night you still can say he's a good athlete. But with a comedian, you see them in front of the wrong audience - and they can look like complete amateurs. It's remarkable.

  Gary Gulman

  Basketball, Athlete, Night

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• I don't come on to seduce the audience. I don't care if everyone laughs. I can't think about that anymore. If there's anything that a lot of experience on stage and a lot of stage time gives you is the confidence to know that it's ok if they're not laughing every second you're up there. Although that's what drives me and I still go too fast a lot of the time.

  Greg Proops

  Confidence, Thinking, Giving

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• When I was in high school I made the discovery that if I was playing in a jazz club, and there were black people in the club, if I could get the black people to like what I was doing, I was on the right track. So I began to play to those people because they knew what the authentic music was. I've always had that in the back of my head.

  Paul Smoker

  School, Play, Discovery

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• If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it -- and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.

  Don Alias

  Apollo, Crowds, Talent

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• Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

  Andres Segovia

  Perfect, Silence, Sometimes

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• The question if this is a work of art or not is not very interesting for us. Probably it is situated in between the established categories. Anyway the audience which is interested in art would be the most open-minded and willing to think about it.

  Bernd Becher

  Art, Thinking, Interesting

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• I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of my photography - give a stage to things that wouldn't normally receive that stage.

  Taryn Simon

  Photography, Giving, Design

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• You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever get. That's the way you're going to get the best out of people. Whether they know you or not shouldn't matter for comedy. They should get to know you pretty quickly. and they should be having a good time pretty quickly.

  Dylan Moran

  Intelligent, Talking, People

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• That is Obama's signature move: Invent people who are saying ridiculous things and then encourage the audience to laugh at these made-up buffoons.

  Ann Coulter

  Moving, People, Laughing

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• You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.

  Neil LaBute

  Moving, World, Stories

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