Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe) Quotes
I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
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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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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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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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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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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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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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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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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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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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Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
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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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'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.
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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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I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.
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I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?
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I think in the industry we're in and the type of audience we have, we're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway? I don't want to grow up.
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[Bananarama] were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press
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Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
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I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.
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So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.
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I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
