Audience Quotes - Page 34

• Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

  Elia Kazan

  Hero, Character, Looks

  Elia Kazan (2009). “Kazan on Directing”, p.260, Anchor

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• There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

  Mira Sorvino

  School, Play, Thrill

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• If all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, where do all the audiences come from?

  Denis Norden

  Player, Men, World

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• I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it comes to their community. You can't laugh at everyone else and then not laugh at yourself. You shouldn't be at my show if you can't laugh at yourself.

  Russell Peters

  Racism, People, Laughing

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• It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

  Gabe Newell

  Impact, Order, Years

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

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• Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

  George Clooney

  Film, Ninety, Mediocre

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

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• When I'm doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: 'Tell about the guy who died on your show!'

  Dick Cavett

  Guy, Appearance, Shows

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.41, Macmillan

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• Stop thinking about the audience and what they may be thinking of your music. Just play the music.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Thinking Of You, Play, May

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• The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

  Les Paul

  Play, Music Love

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• There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been done successfully - that one is grateful to have been spun. In the theater, it is called the willing suspension of disbelief. That's what allows the play to make an impact on the audience: they have to be able to make believe that what's happening on the stage is really happening. Maybe to a degree it is a requirement for all political participation, all effective political communication, too.

  Peggy Noonan

  Communication, Grateful, Believe

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• When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.

  Jill Soloway

  Real, Writing, Hard Times

  "The Funny Women Interview: The Soloway Sisters". Interview with Faith Soloway, therumpus.net. October 25, 2010.

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• All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Pride, Joy, Cinema

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• I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.

  Wayne McGregor

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• 'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

  Wayne McGregor

  Ideas, Trying, Pieces

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• I always wanted it to be multi-cam from the beginning. In the first seeds of the idea, I wanted a live audience, multi-cam show. That was very important for me.

  John Mulaney

  Ideas, Important, Firsts

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.

  Roger Waters

  Imagine, Feels, I Can

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Many people consider darts a sport, with a live audience and very excited fans and competitors who aren`t hitting the bull`s-eye.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Sports, Eye, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I think honesty is a big part. Because when you sing live, you want the audience to believe you.

  Pixie Lott

  Honesty, Believe, Thinking

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• I don't like the theatre. I like plays in which the audience is addressed by the actors. I don't like seeing people talking to each other on stage as if there isn't an audience.

  Jonathan Meades

  Talking, Play, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.

  Roger Glover

  Song, Thinking, Excited

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that. On the street I only focus on the keyboard settings for my next song, which takes a bit of time and a lot of concentration. So I'll have to develop that new skill, which gives me pause, because I'm afraid I'll say something stupid and disillusion people when they realise I'm an ordinary earthling - in fact, as ordinary as anyone else on this planet.

  Susan Schneider

  Song, Stupid, Skills

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's always good to go from a heavy song to a softer one. It helps having the attention of the audience for the whole show - three hours of the same songs for the whole show is boring.

  Neige

  Song, Three, Attention

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening to a man talking to them from over a century ago. And nothing has changed. So what are you going to do about that?

  Hal Holbrook

  Men, Talking, Listening

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Listening, Crowds

  Source: pitchfork.com

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