Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes
Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.Garth Risk Hallberg
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
Idina Menzel -
When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
Laura Marano -
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.
Maggie Smith -
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.
Dana Carvey -
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.
Gabriel Byrne -
I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
Wayne McGregor
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Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
Rachel Sklar -
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
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.
Fede Alvarez -
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.
Gary Lineker -
I have to grow with my audience.
Ice T
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
Walter Hill -
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.
Saffron Burrows -
I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
Hal Holbrook -
KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
Carlos Santana Santana -
The audience has always been my best director.
Eartha Kitt -
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
Aaron Sorkin
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Why did I decide to become an actor ? I decided because my brother helped me decide. I knew nothing about the entertainment industry, and never thought I actually would. I never had an interest in it. I grew up not watching many movies or rarely watching TV.
George Stults -
Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?
Will Champlin -
It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.
Ian Mckellen -
Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and to connect them to the world network. This “reloading process” of modernism according to the twenty-first-century issues could be called altermodernism, a movement connected to the creolisation of cultures and the fight for autonomy, but also the possibility of producing singularities in a more and more standardized world.
Nicolas Bourriaud -
Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
Garth Risk Hallberg