Audience Quotes - Page 18

• Every new routine I have ever written and performed probably occurred extemporaneously. Then after you have fleshed it out and tried it out in front of a number of audiences and it works, you put it down on paper.

  Bob Newhart

  Numbers, Routine, Paper

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• Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.

  Bob Newhart

  Challenges, Environment, Continuing

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• The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.

  Louis Armstrong

  Crazy, Fighting, Cutting

  "Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans". Book by Louis Armstrong, 1954.

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• Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive.

  Robert Adams

  Want, Tiny, Photographer

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its own. I focus on that living hydra in the dark.

  Emo Philips

  Dark, Thinking, People

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with that is artists are misunderstood by all. I'm not interested in the clarinet but in music. we speak our emotions into music. An artist should write for himself and not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. My situation is the same. Let them concentrate on my music and not on me. I like the music. I love it and live it, in fact. But for me, the business part of music just plain stinks.

  Artie Shaw

  Writing, Artist, Misunderstood

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• It's easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.

  Doug Benson

  Comedy, Reactions, Easier

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• When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

  Ray Romano

  Kids, Validation, Comedian

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• Audiences - they like colour, you know. I can go out there wearing a red suit, man, and they'll say I'm out of sight ... I think they should be educated; you should always drop something on an audience ... When you get in front of an audience, you should try to give 'em something. After all, they're there looking at you like this. You can't go out and give 'em nothing.

  Miles Davis

  Men, Thinking, Sight

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• I mean, it makes me sick when I see a white man sitting there smiling at me being entertaining, man. When I know what he's gonna do after he gets through. You know, when you see that thing on their face - like: "Entertain me." You know what I mean? Even the black guy that's trying to be white - even he can have that crap on his face.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Men, White Man

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• You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.

  Don Rickles

  Energy, Excitement, Loses

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 24, 2007.

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• I'm wearing a new perfume that I should recommend to the women in the audience; it's called 'Tester.

  Carol Leifer

  Should, Perfume, Testers

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• It seems like movies that have heart to them always do well, and they find their audience.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Heart, Wells, Seems

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• You've got to change with the public's taste.

  Nat King Cole

  Taste, Analyze This

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• The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

  Nat King Cole

  School, Hard Times, Chance

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• I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Jobs, School, College

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The street in the center of town was Butts road. I stole the sign and told the audience, this must be where the assholes live. I also had a Neighborhood Crime Watch - it takes about 20 seconds to break into a house but it took me an hour to unbolt this sign.

  Carrot Top

  House, Towns, Watches

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• [on making the transition from the comedy "Mary Tyler Moore" (1970) to its dramatic spin-off series "Lou Grant" (1977)] We were really worried about changing over from a three-camera, half-hour comedy to a one-camera, full-hour drama. The audience wasn't ready for the switch - even CBS billed us in their promos as a comedy. In fact, the whole thing was impossible. But we didn't know that.

  Ed Asner

  Drama, Cameras, Transition

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

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• I was also told some years ago that I shouldn't 'waste my time' with female-centric films because the audience was not ready for it.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Years, Female, Waste

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• Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making that film. If you can get the audience to feel emotion for a character that in the previous film you despised utterly and were terrified by, then that's a cinematic arc.

  James Cameron

  Character, Purpose, Emotion

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• I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like.

  Tim Curry

  Character

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• Ratings experts say the best way to get people to watch during sweeps is to leave the audience with a question that won't be answered until the next time the show is on. You know, like Who shot J.R.? I like to think I do this every night - the question is, Is this show still on?

  Craig Ferguson

  Night, Thinking, People

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• The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?

  Chris Hughes

  Thinking, Might, Size

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• I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience of men. If this work is considered incorrect, all the better, for my attempts aim to undermine that singular pontificating male voice-over which correctly instructs our pleasures and histories or lack of them.

  Barbara Kruger

  Men, Voice, Males

  Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.220, MIT Press

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• If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.

  Richard Linklater

  Play, Ifs

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