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.
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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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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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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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Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
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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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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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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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I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to - it is part of the way I think. For me, teaching and explaining, even to my imaginary audience, is part of the process.
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Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll.
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I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.
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I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.
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I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that."
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I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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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.
