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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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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Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.
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My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.
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Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
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The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.
