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Nathan Lane : A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying. # Audiences # Work # Writers and Writing

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Arthur Schnabel : " When I am asked, What do you think of our audience I answer, I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing. " # Audiences # Work # Writers and Writing

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Arthur Schnabel : " When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing." " # Audiences # Work # Writers and Writing

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Viola Spolin : " The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience there is no theater. Every technique learned by the actor, every curtain, every flat on the stage, every careful analysis by the director, every coordinated scene, is for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, our evaluators, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful. " # Audiences # Work # Writers and Writing

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Thomas Love Peacock : " I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away. " # Audiences # Work # Writers and Writing

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Claudette Colbert : " Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them. If they want you, you want to do it. " # Audiences # Work # Writers and Writing

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Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook : " Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience on the stage that transcended their experience in life. They will maintain that Oedipus or Berenice or Hamlet or The Three Sisters performed with beauty and with love fires the spirit and gives them a reminder that daily drabness is not necessarily all. " # Audiences # Work # Writers and Writing

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Clive Lewis : " But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it. " # Audiences # Work # Writers and Writing

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Orson Welles : " I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. " # Audiences # Work # Writers and Writing

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Fanny Burney : " For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive. " # Audiences # Work # Writers and Writing

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Gore Vidal : " The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. " # Audiences # Work # Writers and Writing

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Nathan Lane: " I can remember seeing the movie for the first time at a revival house in L.A. and laughing with everyone else, and never imagining that I would be doing Max one day, even though by then I had already memorized the entire movie." # Imagination # Laughter # Cinema

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Nathan Lane: " I had to develop a sense of humor I'm sure it's a defense mechanism. It was, 'Before they make fun of me, I'll make a joke.' Being funny is just a point of view about life in general. Sometimes it's born out of difficult childhoods, where you have to develop a sense of humor. Ultimately, it's a gift." # Humor # Love # Life and Living

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Nathan Lane: " There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic actor, which is OK, but I can go to New York and I do something that's very emotional. It would be lovely at some point to do something like that on film." # Acting and Actors # Love # Cities and City Life

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Nathan Lane: " I guess there's some sort of unspoken show business rule, [speaks in British accent] 'You do the theater, and then you move into television, and then, of course, that is your steppingstone to film stardom.' I've done it every which way. I've done theater for many, many years and then had some success in films. I would do television sporadically. I thought this was a good time to try it." # Popular Culture # Television # Cinema

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Nathan Lane: " A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying." # Audiences # Work # Writers and Writing

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Nathan Lane: " My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'" # Comedy and Comedians # Love # Resignation

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Nathan Lane: " I was at a dinner party at Steve Martin's house not too long ago. Some very funny people were there - Steve, Marty Short, the whole gang. We sat around the table, like eight of us, and we laughed so hard that we were just sitting there laughing and crying. And I thought, 'This is great. This is what it's like when life is really good. Sitting around with people of that quality and that caliber, people being funny. Smart and funny.' It's great." # Alcohol and Alcoholism # Politicians and Politics # Humor

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Nathan Lane: " I'll always go back to the stage." # Acting and Actors

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Nathan Lane: " The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year." # Success # Competition # Hope

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Nathan Lane: " Yes, I've been compared to Jackie Gleason often. I've been often compared to Lou Costello. ... But after a while you start to go, 'Well, geez. Do I have a personality in there?' The funny thing about Gleason is, he always used to talk about watching Jack Oakie. And if you ever watch Jack Oakie in an old movie, it's very similar to Gleason. ... I think we all steal from one another." # Infatuation # Friends and Friendship # Love

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