Rik Mayall Quotes
With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best.
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
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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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My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
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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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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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I don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.
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Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
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Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
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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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I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.
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I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.
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I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.
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We were hoping that the audience was going to be happy about it and not like, 'What they are doing?' ... So when we got a good response, we were really excited. This is my favorite year so far.
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I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.
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The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old stories so well delivered. Jack himeself laughed a little, but he was able to see the effect his performance had on his audience. The noise of their laughter roared like the sea in his ears. He wanted it louder and louder; he wanted them to drown out the war with their laughter. If the could should loud enough, they might bring the world back to its senses; they might laugh loud enough to raise the dead.
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
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With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best.
