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“My parents were my worst audience.”

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Author:Richard Lewis

“My main goal as an actor, with my craft or whatever poncy way you want to say it, is to always take the audience with me. To make them feel for me, or to make them hate me, I want a reaction. I want their emotions. The worst reaction someone can have is, "eh."”

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Author:Adelaide Kane

“Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.”

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Book:The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience

Source: The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience

“A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.”

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Book:Message from a Stranger: A Novel

Source: Message from a Stranger: A Novel

“If you get too heavy with the nods and winks, people get a sense that they're excluded from something. If they're in screenings and everyone's laughing, and they don't know what the hell it's about, somehow you feel excluded from the party, or like you're not in the inner circle. As a performer, that's the worst thing you can do to an audience. It's fun, but you have to be very careful with it.”

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Author:Hugh Jackman

“I can pretty much guarantee that if I do a show in a comedy club, there will be someone who will come out of the audience and tell me the worst joke ever. It's just a guarantee.”

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Author:Lewis Black

“Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things.”

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Book:Every Last One: A Novel

Source: Every Last One: A Novel

“Having to stand in front of an audience and have it be your job to make them laugh, you can't really look to anyone but yourself. It's what you wrote, what you said and how you said it, so it's kind of terrifying, but I liked it. When it goes well, it's the best feeling in the world. When it doesn't go well, it's the worst feeling, but once you get into the rhythm of it, I think it's really fun.”

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Author:Aubrey Plaza

“It's important to prepare audience for the worst in life. People come to forget their problems, and it's my job, right before I leave, to go, "Don't forget: You're going through a divorce and there's a recession." It's always good to end on a pensive note.”

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Author:Eugene Mirman