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Audience Quotes

"When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood."

"When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood."

Glenn Close, American Actress

Audience, Audiences, Behavior, Blood

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"We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences."

"We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences."

Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian Actress

Audience, Audiences, Blush

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"Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage."

"Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage."

Robert Caro, American Writer

Audience, Ballet, Faces

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"The States still has the best audiences by far."

"The States still has the best audiences by far."

Robin Trower, English Musician

Audience, Audiences, states

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"I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times."

"I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times."

Dick Wolf, American Producer

Audience, Audiences, Television, Want

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"Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either."

"Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either."

Brandon Routh, American Actor

Audience, Audiences, Job, Wrong

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"Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable."

"Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable."

Janis Joplin, American Musician

Audience, Audiences

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"All audiences should be slightly off balance."

"All audiences should be slightly off balance."

Richard Thompson, British Musician

Audience, Audiences, Balance

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"We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited."

"We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited."

Jon Crosby, American Musician

Audience, Audiences, Feeling

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"But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned."

"But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned."

Graham Coxon, German Musician

Audience, Audiences, Spain

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"Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like."

"Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like."

Randy Bachman, Canadian Musician

Audience, Audiences, Public, Songs

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"I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male."

"I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

Audience, Audiences

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"You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public."

"You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public."

Celia Cruz, Cuban Musician

Audience, Audiences, Career, Nothing, Public

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"Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance."

"Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance."

Charles Bronson, American Actor

Audience, Audiences

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"Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think."

"Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think."

Dorothy Kilgallen, American Actress

Audience, Audiences, Man, Trying, World

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"We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences."

"We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences."

Sanjay Dutt, Indian Actor

Audience, Audiences, Film

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"If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience."

"If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience."

Brian Moore, Irish Novelist

Audience, Company, Misery

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"I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences."

"I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences."

Dario Argento, Italian Director

Audience, Audiences, Want

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"But you can't really know your audiences so well."

"But you can't really know your audiences so well."

Peter Maxwell Davies, English Composer

Audience, Audiences

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"What I write is not for little girls."

"What I write is not for little girls."

Theophile Gautier, French Poet

Audience, Girls

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"At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch."

"At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch."

Sean Penn, American Actor

Audience, Audiences, Want

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"No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences."

"No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences."

Timothy West, British Actor

Audience, Audiences, Play, Reason

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"I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me."

"I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me."

Forest Whitaker, American Actor

Audience, Audiences, Connection, Man, Play

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"Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright."

"Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright."

Andy Partridge, British Musician

Audience, Audiences, Eating, France

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"I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger."

"I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger."

James Young, American Musician

Audience, Audiences, Crowds, Now

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"So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences."

"So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences."

Lee Hazlewood, American Musician

Audience, Audiences

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"Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club."

"Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club."

Cab Calloway, American Musician

Audience, Audiences, Name

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"Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern."

"Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern."

Antony Hewish, British Scientist

Audience, Audiences, Concern, Physics, Teaching

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"Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected."

Kevin Spacey, American Actor

Audience, Audiences, Trying, Years

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"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."

"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."

Edward Albee, American Dramatist

Audience, Audiences, Difference

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"I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing."

"I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing."

Artur Schnabel, Polish Musician

Audience, Audiences

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"We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater."

"We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater."

Harold Ramis, American Actor

Audience, Audiences, Testing, Theater

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"Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well."

"Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well."

Jimmy Buffett, American Musician

Audience, Audiences

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"My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy."

"My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy."

Joan Rivers, American Comedian

Audience, Audiences, Therapy, Unhappiness

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"We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences."

"We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences."

Jerry Bruckheimer, American Producer

Audience, Audiences, Want

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"You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!"

"You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!"

Giorgio Armani, Italian Designer

Audience, Day, Press, Public, Waiting

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"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."

"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."

David Antin, American Poet

Audience, Audiences, Want

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"Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences."

"Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences."

Anna Held, Polish Entertainer

Audience, Audiences, Will

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"We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play."

"We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play."

Santiago Durango, American Musician

Audience, Audiences, Care, Play

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"I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places."

"I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places."

Tabitha Soren, American Celebrity

Audience, Audiences, Comparisons, Present, Years

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"Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them."

"Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them."

Claudette Colbert, French Actress

Audience, Audiences, Sound

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"I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real."

"I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real."

Steve Forbert, American Musician

Audience, Audiences, Pretty

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"With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle."

"With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle."

Johnny Vegas, British Comedian

Audience, Audiences, Chance

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"I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent."

"I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent."

Twyla Tharp, American Dancer

Audience, Audiences, Dancing

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"I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange."

"I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange."

Andrew Eldritch, English Musician

Audience, Audiences

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"The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to."

"The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to."

Rue McClanahan, American Actress

Audience, Audiences, Kids

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"For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds."

"For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds."

David Cassidy, American Actor

Audience, Audiences, Kids, Play, Years

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"Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond."

"Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond."

Liza Minnelli, American Actress

Audience, Audiences, World

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"There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop."

"There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop."

Mira Sorvino, American Actress

Audience, Audiences, Being, School

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"Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap."

"Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap."

Emma Thompson, English Actress

Audience, Audiences, Children, End

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