Audience Quotes - Page 17

• The States still has the best audiences by far.

  Robin Trower

  States, Stills

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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.

  Henry Rollins

  Smart, Moving, Cheerful

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• I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

  Henry Rollins

  Night, Feelings, Brain

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• Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

  Henry Rollins

  Attention, Band, Littles

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• I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, People, England

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• Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.

  Henry Rollins

  Bunch

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• Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

  John C. Reilly

  Laughing, Shy, Body

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• When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

  Shirley Temple

  Please, Performers

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• My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don't come now.

  Woody Allen

  Film, Has Beens

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• Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian.

  George Carlin

  Laughing, Comedian

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• President Bush appeared with Arnold Schwarzenegger at a huge campaign event. Only in California can a governor who speaks German and a president who can barely speak English try to make themselves clear to an audience that's primarily Spanish.

  Jay Leno

  California, Speak English, Trying

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• When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

  Theodore Bikel

  Moving, Breaths, Stillness

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• 'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?

  Theodore Bikel

  Play, Green, Wonderful

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• When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Giving, Joy, Teeth

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• My progress reminded me of the horses in The Whip. They raced at the limit of their speed directly toward the audience. But they raced on a treadmill which canceled out their progress.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Horse, Progress, Limits

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

  Bernie Mac

  Thinking, Black, Littles

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• I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

  Bernie Mac

  Needs, Want, Knows

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• I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

  Bernie Mac

  Thinking, Tvs, Insult

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• The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

  Bernie Mac

  Comedy, One Thing

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• I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'

  Bernie Mac

  Selfish, Mistake, Frustrated

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• At the battle of the bands the loser's always the audience.

  Demetri Martin

  Battle, Band, Loser

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• You need an audience to help you figure out what's working and what's worth putting on your album or your special - or even just what's worth touring with.

  Demetri Martin

  Special, Albums, Needs

  "Demetri Martin. Standup Comedian". Interview with Liz Lanier, ninertimes.com. September 27, 2012.

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• How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.

  Demetri Martin

  Creative, Looks, Sketchbooks

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• I am excited about getting back to what I do best and what my audience likes best, I am writing new jokes every day and soon Ill be telling them every night. Just me, one Jew talking and that's it.

  Jackie Mason

  Writing, Night, Talking

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• Hopefully the process is to spot things that would be grist for the funny mill. In some respects, the heavier subjects are the ones that are most loaded with opportunity because they have the most - you know, the difference between potential and kinetic energy? - they have the most potential energy, so to delve into that gives you the largest combustion, the most interest. I don't mean for the audience. I mean for us. Everyone here is working too hard to do stuff we don't care about.

  Jon Stewart

  Mean, Opportunity, Differences

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

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