A Quote by Shirley Temple

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

Shirley Temple

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Audience Large Performer Please Politics Too

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Shirley Temple
American - Actress
April 23, 1928 - February 10, 2014

I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.

Ennio Morricone

If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.

Ali Akbar Khan

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Robert Brustein

When I was first writing, my little prayers were, 'Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.' Then it went to, 'Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.'

Judy Blume

I don't photograph for other people. I love an audience, mind you. Once I've got them there, then I love an audience. Not a big audience, though. I'd rather please ten people I respect than ten million I don't. But I don't play to an audience, I do it for myself.

Brett Weston

Audience today like an honest approach to cinema; if you try to please the audience they come to know.

Mahesh Manjrekar

I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

Shane Black

I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just play the greatest hits, and their audience is happy to hear that as well, and that's fine, but it wouldn't please me. But it doesn't trouble me.

Paul Weller

Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.

V. S. Pritchett

Please, please, please, please, please...,", squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.

Mitch Albom

Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along with your characters. If you can do that, then you will most likely find a large audience; but even if a large audience is never found, you'll have a happy life.

Dean Koontz

When you talk about the exchange of energy between performer and audience and audience and performer, I hope that I'm one of the best.

Raheem DeVaughn

The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this.

Terrence Howard

I believe that classical music comes through listening and practice, and it can be fun both for the singer or performer and the listener or audience, as long as the performer is taught to recognise the pulse of the audience.