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 problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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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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Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
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You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.
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Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.
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You gotta chill and relax, and release, meditate, and breathe and walk, and ski and surf, and bask and sunbathe and relax and sing and love and laugh and nurture yourself, and eat good stuff. And find better and better feeling thoughts and practice them until they become the norm. And then everything that life has caused you to become must manifest into your experience.
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I feel vulnerable every single time I step into a classroom. I feel completely exposed.
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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.
