#audience

Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me. ↗

— Fred Melamed

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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#back #bombarded #chairs #forward #got

I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying to entertain them for two hours. Thankfully, I only think about that right before we go on, and then once we're out there, everything's fine. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#absolutely #absolutely nothing #audience #before #challenge

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing. ↗

— Edward Norton

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In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story. ↗

— Edward Norton

#certain #disbelief #drama #get #i

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#between #create #emotion #equally #incapable

I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference. ↗

— Tony Martin

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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

#bruised #fell #gone #i #off

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me. ↗

— Jackie Mason

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Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#black #called #cherry #eyes #girl