Audience Quotes - Page 5

• When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.

  Howard Stern

  Hard Work, Nuts, Hours

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• The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

  Lenny Bruce

  Laughing, Comedian, Fifteen

  "Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth". Documentary, Biography, Comedy, 1998.

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• What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Fall, Looks, Rehearsal

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• When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

  Jerry Lewis

  Hurt, Pain, Adrenaline

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• And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

  Juice Newton

  Thinking, Alternatives, Flavor

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• Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.

  John Ratzenberger

  Long, Hollywood, Lost

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• I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.

  Tom Sizemore

  Stars, Thinking, Watches

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• I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

  Jerry Hall

  Character, Being In Love, Theater

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• I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time

  Lita Ford

  Thinking, Guitar, Singers

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• I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

  Tom Wopat

  Singing, Spotlight, Come Up

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• I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.

  Shannon Miller

  Kids, Faces, Performing

  "Chat: Shannon Miller". Interview with Peter Gambaccini, www.runnersworld.com. October 23, 2006.

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• Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

  Victoria Pratt

  Hero, Firefighter, Looks

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• I do not write for an audience

  Leon Uris

  Writing

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• The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

  Robert Brustein

  Theatre, Talent, Function

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• I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

  Kurt Loder

  Thinking, People, News

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• If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

  Rick Derringer

  Growing Up, Kids, Musical

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• You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

  Judy Holliday

  Smart, Play, Dumb

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• I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

  Joan Jett

  Fun, Believe, Struggle

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• Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

  John Lasseter

  Kids, Play, Challenges

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• Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

  John Lasseter

  Cinema, Mediums

  "A Minute With: Disney's John Lasseter on creating Oscar magic". Interview with Zorianna Kit, uk.reuters.com. February 25, 2010.

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• Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

  Vivien Leigh

  Night, Nervous, Know How

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• We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Night, Needs, Firsts

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• Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

  Jessica Savitch

  Play, Literature, Senators

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

  Pete Seeger

  Situations In Life, Color, Political

  "When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. January 28, 2014.

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• Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Alcohol, Bedtime

  Paris Review Interview (1981), later quoted in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fifth Series", 1981.

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