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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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"I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive."
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"I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing."
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"Audiences are audiences."
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"Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes."
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"I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times."
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"With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle."
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"Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think."
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"You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public."
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"At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch."
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"The first clothing line I had was called Very Rue. Then we changed the name and moved to QVC, and the name became A Touch of Rue."
First
"I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance."
Performance
"They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs."
Music
"We stopped doing my clothing line about five years ago, so it isn't available anymore."
Years
"I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on."
Character
"I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised."
Diet
"Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant."
Jokes
"We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles."
Cats
"I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it."
Cancer
"The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to."
Audience
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