Jim Messina Quotes
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
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When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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I have this whole new audience now.
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I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.
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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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I remember going onstage on Broadway in this Leigh Bowery thing for a track like "Ich Bin Kunst." I've got breasts, this latex dripping down on my head, and I come out in a box. I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie O'Donnell was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it's a family show.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.
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That set it for me that it was possible to capture an audience
