Eve Arden Quotes
In the theater, I could envision myself as wonderful because of the audience response to my lines.
Quotes to Explore
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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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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The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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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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Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.
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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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Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
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In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.
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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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I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.
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The stage is that immediate rush of energy you get from the audience. Also, doing something in chronology - something that starts and finishes the same night. In television, you work toward the one scene, you shoot it, and then you have to forget about it because you have to worry about the next scene.
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He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.
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Artists have to survive.
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Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.
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In the theater, I could envision myself as wonderful because of the audience response to my lines.
