Audience Quotes

• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

  Walter Lippmann

  Inspirational, Positive, Music

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.324, Transaction Publishers

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• Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Spiritual, Prayer, Singing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

  John Lithgow

  Opportunity, Tragedy, Looks

  "John Lithgow's Killer Role". Interview with Claire Martin, www.thedailybeast.com. December 10, 2009.

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• Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

  Fanny Brice

  Inspirational, Giving, Directors

  "The Fabulous Fanny: The Story of Fanny Brice". Book by Norman Katkov, p. 71, 1953.

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• We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing that they don't get is story. So I think whether you're talking about a biopic or an action film or a science-fiction film that has all the CGI in the world, if you're not trying to connect with an audience, it doesn't really matter.

  John Ridley

  Thinking, Talking, Intellectual

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

  James Stewart

  Business, Management, Economics

  "The Ultimate Writer's Guide to Hollywood" by Skip Press, (p. 199), 2004.

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• Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

  Dale Carnegie

  Public Speaking, Said, Speakers

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.117, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.128, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I try to do something the audience might not have seen before.

  Jim Carrey

  Trying, Might, Never Been Kissed

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• To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

  Walt Whitman

  Learning, Science, Discovery

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.521, NYU Press

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• My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

  Chris Matthews

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• It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Cutting, Hands, Stories

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• I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

  Samuel

  Dark, Movie Love, Looks

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• I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

  Orson Welles

  Giving, Theatre, Suggestions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

  Seth Green

  Sympathy, Way, Gains

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

  Dorothy Sarnoff

  Meaningful, Listening, Oratory

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• If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

  Gustav Mahler

  Writing, Thinking, Boring

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• When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

  Cedric Hardwicke

  Talking, Acting, Actors

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

  George Carlin

  Needs, Ovation, Corny

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

  Tristan Bernard

  Live Theatre, Want, Theater

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• Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Women, Criticism

  Rebecca West (1957). “The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West”

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• When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

  Mark Twain

  Doe, Complaining, Violence

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• Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

  Shirley Booth

  Acting, Actors, Should

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• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Needs, Reactions, I Want You

  FaceBook post by Gavin Rossdale from Jan 27, 2012

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• If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Acting, Actors

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