Sharlto Copley Quotes

Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.

Sharlto Copley

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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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• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

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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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• In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.

  

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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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• My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

  

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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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• I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.

  

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• Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.

  

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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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• I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

  

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• 'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.

  

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• You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.

  

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• When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.

  

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• The thing is when you're... well-enough known, you get asked to speak places, and they don't really think about whether or not you're qualified. They just want somebody that will be a drawing card for the audience. So it's up to you to decide whether or not it's foolish to get up and speak to these people.

  

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• Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

  

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• For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

  

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• If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

  

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• I want to gather up all the words in the world and write them down on little pieces of paper—then throw them in the air. They would look like tiny sparrows flying toward the sun. Without all those words, the sky would be clear and perfect and blue. The deafening world would be beautiful in all that silence.

  

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• I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.

  

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  • Thinking
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• Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.

  

  Sharlto Copley
  • Audience
  • Filmmaker
  • Villain