Rik Mayall Quotes
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
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Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Middle-earth or bars in Boston you would be afraid to go into. You see characters there - they aren't hobbits but they're close.
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Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.
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Popularity matters a lot, as at the end of the day, the love of your audiences can make you win.
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There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences.
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I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.
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You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people.
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Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.
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Audiences believe what you believe. It's a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you've got no choice. None at all.
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Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.
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Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.
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Audiences have kept me alive.
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I struggle on many fronts on having to move to a different level, having to cater to constantly evolving audiences.
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The point of view foreigners will have of the film The Conquest isn't the same as the French public. What will interest American and international audiences is the love story between Nicolas and Cecelia that's a metaphor of today's occidental couple, namely the women in the shadows who carry their husbands into the spotlight, but the man is so absorbed with work so the woman leaves him for another man.
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I want to be real and relatable, because if I am not, then I lose my credibility among audiences.
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Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.
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I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess.
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Italy in the Seventies seems like a fascinating place.
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Estrogen's a wonderful thing. I'd be doing the dishes and suddenly be like, 'Wait a minute - why am I crying?'
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In my experience, professionals who are best in any field approach their work with humility. They know that their work is more than just a job. It's an exploration of life. Even on days when they feel most confident, things can go wrong. Sometimes even the good things that happen are a mystery - a surprise. There are always elements outside our control. That's humbling - or should be.
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I've always had live audiences.
