Audience Quotes - Page 2

• An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

  Billy Wilder

  Work, Dark, Together

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• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

  Jack Lemmon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

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• The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

  Wes Craven

  Halloween, Scare, Monsters

  "Wes Craven, Scream and Nightmare on Elm Street Director, Dies at 76" by Matt Patches, www.esquire.com. August 31, 2015.

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• In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes

  Jason Biggs

  Character, Order, Pie

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• I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it.

  John Waters

  Trials, Way, Tvs

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• I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

  David Antin

  Believe, Thinking, Focus

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• I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.

  Richard Marx

  Ribs, Gone, Realizing

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• Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

  Alfred Jarry

  Thinking, Suffering, Ovation

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• Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.

  Paul Weyrich

  Able, Firsts, Despite

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• The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

  Julianne Moore

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

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• The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Animal, Intelligent, Intellectual

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.

  Kim Gordon

  Thinking, Trying, Too Much

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• I feel that special secret current between the public and me. I can hold them with one little note in the air, and they will not breathe. That is a great, great moment.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Air, Secret, Special

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• I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?

  Nina Simone

  Pay, Intimate, Particular

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• It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

  Keren Ann

  Everyday, Trying, Sound

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• Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.

  Carmine Gallo

  Typical, Way, Worst

  Carmine Gallo (2010). “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.

  Bobby Farrelly

  Dad, Kids, Thinking

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• An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “How to Write”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Loss, Architecture

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

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• I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.

  Melinda Clarke

  People

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

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• Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

  William O. Douglas

  Yesterday, History, Democracy

  "Kingsley Books, Inc. v. Brown, 354 U.S. 436". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 24, 1957.

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• I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Stupid, Believe, Thinking

  "The Two Hollywoods; The Man Who Changed Everything". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 1997.

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• Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

  Laurence Olivier

  Theatre, Noses

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• The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

  Emanuel Ax

  Reactions, Force, Sheer

  "Alex Ross: Time to show our appreciation for classical music". Interview With Alex Ross, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2010.

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• When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience

  Galen

  Tunes, Landscape, Way

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