Imaani (Imaani Saleem) Quotes
For me it’s a way of reaching more audience and at the end of the day; that’s what it’s all about. I just want to sing and be heard, that’s what I love. With the House project for instance, I am going out to South Africa next month. I have a pretty cool following over there and it’s been brilliant.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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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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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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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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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
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I have this whole new audience now.
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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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I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
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Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
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When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.
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We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.
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The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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You have to remember once in a while that you can actually stop working and appreciate things.
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For me it’s a way of reaching more audience and at the end of the day; that’s what it’s all about. I just want to sing and be heard, that’s what I love. With the House project for instance, I am going out to South Africa next month. I have a pretty cool following over there and it’s been brilliant.
