Audience Quotes - Page 16

• Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd.

  Joseph Parker

  Heart, Broken, Suffering

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• Ultimately, it's not my job to judge the 'Housewives' - we don't editorialize on the show; we really leave it to the audience. We have a certain wink, which is the Bravo wink. We may linger on a shot or we may let something play out longer, but we leave it to you.

  Andy Cohen

  Jobs, Play, Judging

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• I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Crazy, Play, People

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• The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

  Joe Rogan

  Night, Thinking, Speak Your Mind

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• Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

  David Mamet

  Want, Narrative, Next

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• This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Tragedy, Changed, Courses

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.

  Robert Palmer

  Attitude, Thinking, Hopeful

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• I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn't matter.

  Bipasha Basu

  Matter, Entertainment, Film

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• Films with female protagonists don't attract many eyeballs. Most of them are perceived as feminist films. If Bollywood starts giving women major roles in entertaining movies, then the audience, too, will open up to the idea of watching commercial films in which the actresses do more than just play the role of the hero's love interest.

  Bipasha Basu

  Hero, Play, Ideas

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• I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

  Ziggy Marley

  Children, Ideas, Way

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

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• If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.

  Ziggy Marley

  Song, Night, Play

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

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• Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.

  Ziggy Marley

  Kids, Important, Planets

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

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• Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered.

  Robert Plant

  Art, Night, Long

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• My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can't see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama.

  Maria Callas

  Drama, Sight, People

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• ...in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Thinking, Creative, Genius

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• The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.

  Brian May

  Band, Size, Kind

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• In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Worry, Pieces, Want

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• I love the chemistry that can be created onstage between the actors and the audience. It's molecular even, the energies that can go back and forth. I started in theater and when I first went into movies I felt that my energy was going to blow out the camera.

  Glenn Close

  Blow, Cameras, Energy

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• Good live theater disturbs molecules. You create an energy source around yourself and it alternates between you and the audience. Anybody who sees live theater should come out a little rearranged.

  Glenn Close

  Energy, Molecules, Littles

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

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• It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

  David Mamet

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.

  Mick Jagger

  Behave, Happens, Knows

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• The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?

  Joan Jett

  Depressing, Support, Males

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• Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

  Charley Pride

  Country, Mtv, Moguls

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• Don't make your audience play Jeopardy. Giving your answer before asking the question puts your audience at a disadvantage. It will also reveal your biases. Make it clear what question you are trying to answer first. Then allow your audience to engage in answering the question too.

  John Fairclough

  Play, Giving, Trying

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• In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Thinking, Fire, Theatre

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