Julia Bacha Quotes
Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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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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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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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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The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
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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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As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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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'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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I have this whole new audience now.
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I don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.
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Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
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I always at least try to come from some sort of human place no matter how ridiculous the character is. That's really awesome. That is more the work that I'm leaning towards doing.
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Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.
