Richard Thompson Quotes
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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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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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.
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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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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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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.
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I have this whole new audience now.
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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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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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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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A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
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Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
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Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
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We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps Followed each other till a dreary moor Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge, I overlooked the bed of Windermere, Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.
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You want the audience to be uncomfortable.
