“There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.” PeopleShowsFacesFunEnjoyStepsAudienceMinutesStageAnxietyHaving Fun Author:Thalia
“The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling boot. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software.” WorldAudienceTelevisionProductsHugeElementsPaperAnxietyNewsVoteMarketingWidePsychologicalMagazinesConsumersLandscapeZoneSoftwareCashBootsPassiveTechnologicalBallotsPresent DayElectorateReadershipWeaponryOpportunistPolling Author:J. G. Ballard
“I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience through it (a Hitchcock phrase) without purpose, or without the nagging moral anxiety that activated Hitch. You see, I don't think William Friedkin believes in the Devil, or cares about him. I think he found exorcism a pretext for a gross-out and he calculated there was an audience for it, or a crowd ready to be challenged. Maybe I'm too much of an atheist to stand religion being so thrashed.” ThinkingBelieveCareFilmPurposeFoundMoralAudienceToo MuchTalentDangerReadyAnxietyDevilHollywoodAtheistCrowdsPhrasesWarningDislikeGrossFuriousPretextCinematicHitchcockNaggingExorcismExorcistWarning Signs Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“Its quite pretentious, really, isnt it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.” ThinkingHoursHalfAudienceToo MuchAnxietyNotionPretentious Author:Jean Dujardin
“It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety--not even joy.” GivingJoyActorsPayActingAudienceAnxietyPerformancesTheaterIllnessEntitledInterferePersonal LifeFatigueBest Performance Book:The Movies, Mr. Grifith, and Me Source: The Movies, Mr. Grifith, and Me
“There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but I’m neither flattering the Indian audience nor the American audience. I’m uneasily somewhere in the middle.” AudienceMiddleAnxietyIndiaSellingIndianFlatteringSelling Out Author:Pankaj Mishra