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“I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.”

Ifs Chance Half Audience Saws Fairs Shocked Twists Always Believe

Author:Damon Lindelof

“Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.”

Thinking Should Night Hours Half Quality Audience Weekend Sophisticated Thursday Thursday Night

Author:Maggie Q

“Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.”

Ifs Mean Rooms Half Audience Standing Empty Meetings Smell Theatre Atmosphere Restaurants Half Empty Auditoriums

Author:David Ogilvy

“I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.”

Ifs Two Matter Hours Half Watches Audience Impossible Eight Fascinated Documentaries Woody Half Hours Brando

Author:Brett Ratner

“How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve.”

Government Lasts Night President Half Audience Speech Deserve Okay Idols Last Night Hearted Applause American Idol Half Hearted

Author:Jay Leno

“In theater, there's a lot of discipline involved in doing eight shows a week for a year and a half. It's nice to be able to bring some of that bag of tools with you over to the film world, where you don't have the rehearsal, you don't have an audience. You don't have a month of rehearsal to examine these words, and you meet the guy who's going to play your brother the morning that you shoot the scene. So you need a bag of tools.”

World Needs Years Play Shows Able Film Guy Half Morning Audience Nice Week Brother Months Discipline Involved Scene Tools Theater Eight Bags Rehearsal Your Brother

Author:William Sadler

“Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.”

Knows Giving Moments Remember Half Audience Theatre Movie Do You Know Dozen

Author:Rosalind Russell

“A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.”

Way Needs Half Audience Personality Half Way

Book:The benefactor: a novel

Source: The benefactor: a novel

“The people that keep coming back every year are diehards. I'll go out there to host a panel and I know half of the audience. I see them, every year, and they come back for more because they believe in us. That's one of the coolest things.”

People Knows Years Believe Half Audience Host Coming Back Diehard Believe In Us

Author:Zachary Levi

“I don't think half my stuff would be funny if the audience didn't feel at least a little bit safe that it's not how I truly feel.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Littles Would Be Stuff Bits Half Audience Safe Little Bit

Author:Sarah Silverman

“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.”

Thinking Hours Half Audience Too Much Anxiety Notion Pretentious

Author:Jean Dujardin

“For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.”

Writing Two Different Use Brain Half Audience Adults

Author:Sara Shepard

“One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.”

Belief Pleasure Acting Half Audience Theatre Arise Spectators One Half

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.”

Ifs Giving Actors Chance Acting Half Audience

Author:William Hazlitt

“With any television series - and it's something that is taken for granted with movies because you have the whole arc within two hours - you establish who the character is and it's a two-dimensional version, or if you're lucky, a two and a half-dimensional character. Once you establish that, you can move forward and break all the rules. Once the audience has accepted who the person is, then you can do the exact opposite. What makes it funny and interesting is doing the opposite.”

Ifs Persons Two Character Moving Can Do Interesting Half Break Audience Television Lucky Opposites Series Accepted Versions Moving Forward

Author:Rashida Jones

“Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.”

People Shows Hours Half Talking Audience Minutes Missing

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"”

Mean Doe Waiting Half Audience Minutes

Author:Malcolm D. Lee

“Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.”

Two Three Hours Half Audience Exhausted Yawning

Author:Adam McKay

“For me, a great show is when there's a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we're all really into it. The first trick is to bring the audience into the band, break the ice, have a life, and be one, so you can enjoy the next hour and a half together.”

Firsts Shows Together Next Enjoy Hours Half Break Audience Band Tricks Ice Rapport

Author:Andy Summers