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"Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected."
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"I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences."
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"If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience."
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"My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy."
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"I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent."
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"With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle."
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"There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop."
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"I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real."
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"Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them."
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"I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again."
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"We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater."
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"I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?"
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"As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments."
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"And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private."
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"Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies."
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"I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me."
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"The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before."
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"If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!"
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"Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios."
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"I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman."
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"Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?"
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