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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We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater.
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If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.
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In the theater, I could envision myself as wonderful because of the audience response to my lines.
