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• You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

  Judy Holliday

  Smart, Play, Dumb

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• Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Alcohol, Bedtime

  Paris Review Interview (1981), later quoted in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fifth Series", 1981.

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• I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

  Kate Smith

  Sympathy, Heart, Thrill

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• My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

  Rick Moranis

  Growth, Lines, Taste

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• When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

  Andy Kaufman

  Rooms, Comedy, Sharing Things

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• Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

  Katherine Moennig

  Imperfection, Stage

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• I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

  Mickey Gilley

  Kids, Age

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• I'm not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them

  Tyra Banks

  Helping, Not Sure

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• I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

  Joan Jett

  Fun, Believe, Struggle

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• Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

  John Lasseter

  Kids, Play, Challenges

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• Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

  Vivien Leigh

  Night, Nervous, Know How

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• Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

  Jessica Savitch

  Play, Literature, Senators

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

  Pete Seeger

  Situations In Life, Color, Political

  "When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. January 28, 2014.

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• As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

  Christopher Walken

  Play, Actors, Made

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• Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

  Diogenes

  Dance, Dancing, Virtue

  Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.56, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

  Mary Renault

  Believe, Believe In Yourself, Ifs

  Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”

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• I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

  Dick Cavett

  Thinking, Surprise, Reactions

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• Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

  Nicholas Lea

  Character, Depth, Add

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

  Barbra Streisand

  Umpires, Judging, Lag

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• Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Attitude, Atmosphere

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

  Aristotle

  Success, Education, Simplicity

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• When the movie's on, I usually watch more of the audience.

  Devon Sawa

  Watches

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

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• At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Women, Dancing, Males

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso

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• In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

  Cat Stevens

  Firefighter, Style, Experience

  "Feline groovy". Interview with Molloy Woodcraft, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2004.

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• When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

  Red Barber

  Talking, Imagine, Praise

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