Harry Shearer Quotes
You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home.
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The important thing is having genuine regard for your 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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Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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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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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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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'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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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
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Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
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It shows 'us vs. them', and I'm on the 'us' side.
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Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
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In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.
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I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.
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The personal boundaries, I think for comedians they're a little bit different anyway, but I think people - feel free to do stuff - It's interesting with comedians because when we walk on stage, oftentimes we're talking about ourselves for an hour and we're talking about very intimate details, so after hearing us for an hour, a lot of people feel very comfortable with us because they feel like they know us and they're our friends because we just told them our innermost secrets and details of our lives for an hour. What they forget is we know absolutely nothing about the audience.
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
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But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.
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Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
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Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.
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You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home.
