Burt Reynolds Quotes
The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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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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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
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I have to grow with my audience.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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Trust me, I would love to have a wife and kids. I would very much enjoy that. But I also know that you have to be in the right place to do that.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
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I have this whole new audience now.
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.
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The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.
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There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep.
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What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.
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You're worth the investment in yourself and what you feel, you can and want to be
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The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.
