Audience Quotes
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I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.
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Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.
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I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy because they were performing, a lot of times, for white audiences who found it hilarious.
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Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.
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At one point, people thought that Eddie Murphy would only reach one sector of the audience, but now everyone sees everything Eddie Murphy does.
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When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.
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Broadly speaking, in the past few years, we've more than doubled the editorial staff in Mother Jones, as part of ramping up daily operations that have resulted in huge gains in audience, a slew of awards, new multimedia endeavors, and of course scoops like the 47 percent.
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I've learned that you never have to think about how to make money. You need only to focus on what you think is going to be a good movie or what's a movie I'd like to watch as the audience.
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What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.
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People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.
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I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.
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Somewhere, the audience relates to my characters and their vulnerability. I believe they see themselves in me.
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I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.
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There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
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You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't - if you are wise - talk down to any audience.
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We as comics do want an immediate response from the audience. It's really quiet on the set, and there are only the producers, and the director, so a comic is looking for someone to give a reaction, even if it is the camera guy.
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Keep making music.. Keep improving your music.. If there's no viral action on your music, you're just not good enough. Don't get mad at the audience, get mad at yourself. Either give up or get better.
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A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
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It is stupid to think the audience is a bunch of fools who can be manipulated by long titles and NRI romances.
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I need space between me and the audience - and the more space the better.
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Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
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At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.
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My goal in writing for teens and tweens is to help my audience feel inspired and empowered today, to find their voice today, to believe that they can truly design the life of their dreams...today. I mean seriously...why wait?
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I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for the audience rather than to present it to the audience for their enjoyment and them to mull over the questions that the characters present.
