Billy Joel Quotes
If we're going to keep ourselves interested, we can't play for the reviewer and we can't just play for the audience. In the end, you have to just play for yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.
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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.
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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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Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.
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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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As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.
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I'm very interested in science.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.
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I have to grow with my audience.
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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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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
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[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'
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'The Magus,' usually described as a book for the young, is about learning that the world is a mysterious and limitless place, beyond our control, and all the more exciting - and daunting - because of it.
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It's just that I am too old now to chase all the woman involved; which just seems a shame.
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But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.
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There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.
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If we're going to keep ourselves interested, we can't play for the reviewer and we can't just play for the audience. In the end, you have to just play for yourself.
