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Audience Quotes by David Mamet
- The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you…
- If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all…
- Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the…
- As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.
- Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled…
- My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
- Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act…
- Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good…
- A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the…
More Audience Quotes
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It… — Aaliyah
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book,… — Paul Auster
- If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience. — Tallulah Bankhead
- I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what… — Erykah Badu
- I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's… — Erykah Badu
- You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world,… — Christian Bale
- I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. — Lucille Ball
- I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and… — Antonio Banderas
- I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and… — Tyra Banks