Miriam Margolyes
Related You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a ... K'NAAN OZZY OSBOURNE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. ... WARREN LITTLEFIELD On the stage, you enter into a bond with the audience, and you can sense they are moved by what you&... EVERETT MCGILL It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can r... LAURA BRANIGAN In this fragmented world, with such short attention spans, you've got a couple of episodes to ma... DAVID WALTON HALLE BERRY When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exa... KEITH JARRETT When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form... CARLTON CUSE GERMANY KENT GERMANY KENT JOSH FOX In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the ... JON BATISTE I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with... SAFFRON BURROWS ANTONIN SCALIA It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON ADAM DRIVER If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain p... JACK REYNOR I don't feel I'm fighting to reach this huge audience; it just happens. I go on stage before... DANIELLE DE NIESE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN JAMES WAN But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks,... JAMIE FOXX JOHN C. REILLY GABE NEWELL Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you'v... BARBARA BROCCOLI A filmmaker chooses an actress keeping the best interest of the film in mind. If he doesn't cast... RANI MUKERJI JIM HENSON JAY-Z LJUPKA CVETANOVA The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the atte... TAYLOR SHERIDAN When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to ... SALLY HAWKINS NEIL PATRICK HARRIS If you're serious about what you're doing, you've got to keep your head and follow your ... JONNY LEE MILLER People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinn... DAVID E. KELLEY DOROTHY FIELDS If you don't have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the od... BRETT HOEBEL MARK ZUCKERBERG If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say ... CARLISLE FLOYD IAN MCKELLEN BRITTANY HOWARD Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audie... JENNA ELFMAN When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. Yo... D. A. PENNEBAKER We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next... VALERIE SIMPSON BEN WHEATLEY JIM LAMPLEY GERMANY KENT JOHNNY CASH BRANDON SANDERSON Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so... EDWARD HERRMANN Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won... IKE BARINHOLTZ CRAIG GROESCHEL CRAIG GROESCHEL JOHN CENA If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very ... D. A. PENNEBAKER I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard ... DAVID NEVINS I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect the... KRISTEN SCHAAL I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-... ADAM GREEN WARREN SPECTOR The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just... EDIE FALCO There's something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show.... HEAVY D MIRIAM MARGOLYES NOEL GALLAGHER I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. I... RANDY ALCORN CATE BLANCHETT If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any ... MELISSA ROSENBERG When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It&... SEAN PATRICK THOMAS You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want ... DAVID E. KELLEY Television is such an evolving medium. When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just s... CHRIS PRATT OCTAVIA BUTLER VINCE VAUGHN JANE PAULEY JEB BUSH MAISIE WILLIAMS BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you'r... BILLY ECKSTINE ROBERTO BENIGNI We're trying to evolve a lot away from YouTube because YouTube is awesome - they have a huge aud... ANTHONY PADILLA ISABELLA ROSSELLINI SHIRLEY TEMPLE If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all... RICHARD RODGERS As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the... SYLVESTER MCCOY The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the abili... LISA GANSKY It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the... MATTHEW BOURNE The beauty of science fiction is that it takes the audience's guard down; they're much more ... DUNCAN JONES JOSH TURNER But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, y... BEA ARTHUR You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. ... SALLY SCHNEIDER DYLAN MORAN On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagi... STEPHEN LANG SIMON MAINWARING STEWART BUTTERFIELD And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can giv... BILLY OCEAN NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF CHUCK BERRY ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH FANNY BRICE I don't want to make it a hard, fast rule, but it's surprising how many 'fun for the who... KYLE KINANE
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wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly. MIRIAM MAKEBA The violin came naturally, and it really fit me. When I picked it up (and placed it under the chin),... MIRIAM BURNS The lunch break helps you stay focused and energized throughout the day by recharging both your body... MIRIAM JACOBS Stock up on unique condiments and sandwich toppings that can make each sandwich different. Or you ca... MIRIAM JACOBS [According to lunchtime expert Miriam Jacobs, author of The Brown Bag Lunch Cookbook and The School ... MIRIAM JACOBS Plan a relaxing activity during your break. Maybe it's something you really enjoy doing, but think y... MIRIAM JACOBS Work together to make lists of foods your kids like and you approve of, and fill their lunch boxes w... MIRIAM JACOBS [* Make Each Lunch Special: Jacobs says it's important to know a child's lunchtime favorites and inv... MIRIAM JACOBS [* Some Me Time: There are many things to do during the lunch hour, but Jacobs reminds people that l... MIRIAM JACOBS A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they hav... MIRIAM TOEWS A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for t... MIRIAM TOEWS I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is... MIRIAM MAKEBA I have a problem with beginnings... and endings... and middles. But I don't know what else I wou... MIRIAM TOEWS For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we becom... MIRIAM MAKEBA Canada has, at times, represented itself as a country in a valiant struggle against powerful and men... MIRIAM TOEWS There are people who are just suicidal, regardless. They are built to self-destruct. It seems, in my... MIRIAM TOEWS I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacle... MIRIAM MAKEBA Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way yo... MIRIAM MAKEBA Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly. MIRIAM MAKEBA Mama Africa. MIRIAM MAKEBA I, for one, get rather annoyed when I settle into a nice bubble bath with some Belgian chocolate and... MIRIAM NADEL That's wonderful. And what did you do with the money? MIRIAM HOPKINS You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars. MIRIAM HOPKINS The requests for blurbs seem to come in waves. I'm not sure what precipitates them. I think it m... MIRIAM TOEWS Being a cover conductor is really like being an assistant conductor because I'm there as the orchest... MIRIAM BURNS Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has no... MIRIAM MAKEBA Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. MIRIAM ROBBINS This accolade spotlights the increasingly high expectations of today's discerning consumers who trav... MIRIAM AROND Today's children are very opinionated. You have kids that only want to wear pink, or only want to we... MIRIAM AROND Children's wear is such an important part of the fashion market. Just about every big designer is go... MIRIAM AROND Touching is extremely exciting for children. It eliminates the distance between children and art. MIRIAM AROND People are waiting longer to have kids, so they have more disposable income to spend when they final... MIRIAM AROND Although I have spent this book ranting about supper, you may have noticed that, underneath it all, ... MIRIAM WEINSTEIN I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career. MIRIAM MAKEBA They thought that would silence the opposition. They thought nobody would find out, so we started hi... MIRIAM LEIVA I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much gr... MIRIAM MAKEBA I had to put down the violin. It was devastating. . . . But if it hadn't happened I never would have... MIRIAM BURNS [Tips From a Lunchtime Expert According to lunchtime expert Miriam Jacobs, author of The Brown Bag L... MIRIAM JACOBS One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and deli... MIRIAM BEARD Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Th... MIRIAM BEARD It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, the... MIRIAM BEARD The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation. MIRIAM BEARD She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself. MIRIAM TOEWS قد لا يكون من الشائع الحديث في تلك المسألة، ولكن في الو�... MIRIAM GROSSMAN In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences. MIRIAM TOEWS I do wear tails . . . I think it would be distracting to wear a long dress. You have to look ultra-f... MIRIAM BURNS He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading... MIRIAM TOEWS I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevi... MIRIAM TOEWS He would be admitting to himself that life has suddenly become very short, very precious, that soon ... MIRIAM TOEWS When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restor... MIRIAM TOEWS One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as... MIRIAM TOEWS Ours was a marriage, a love affair -- the land would nurture us, and we would honor the land. But th... MIRIAM MAKEBA Our research shows that a program of strength training not only improves bone density but reduces fa... MIRIAM NELSON Every parent wants to go. MIRIAM RICHMOND The interest rate differential is huge between fixed- income investments domestically and abroad. MIRIAM TAVARES Originally in the United States, there were no laws regulating behavioral advertising. As a result, ... MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves t... MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now ... MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO I don't think so-called high technology matters in death. I think they had high technology befor... MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is re... 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I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to s... 
You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it... 
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... 
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
With moviemaking, the audience always has to keep asking, 'What happens next?' If you have t... 
If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that yo... 
I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that a... 
You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if... 
It's very difficult to get an audience to be terrified of what's going on. Think about it: Y... 
Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed.... 
It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience o... 
You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And i... 
I think the problem with people, as they start to mature, they say, 'Rap is a young man's ga... 
Not everyone has the time to be normal. 
I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audi... 
If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show. 
Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and f... 
Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars do... 
You play with the audience, and they play back with you. They get into it, and then everybody gets i... 
You really have to be careful with the clues you lay into the film - if they're too heavy-handed... 
I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with t... 
You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their g... 
I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... 
If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... 
I'm the one person who wears the words 'hustle, loyalty, respect' on my T-shirts and mer... 
If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictl... 
I can't recall a bad review - maybe I'm due one. But the worst thing would be if somebody sa... 
You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm sp... 
When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it&#... 
A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think ... 
It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-de... 
I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're mov... 
Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to... 
If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. The... 
It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience ... 
I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if t... 
It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because gener... 
When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, y... 
In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't wan... 
You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever... 
As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to mak... 
One of the biggest lessons I've learned is that there has got to be a reason for what you're... 
Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their ... 
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you... 
I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... 
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious w... 
I don't think people realise how important it is to have your blood pressure checked. Stroke is ... 
I don't care what I look like. I must be comfortable. Some of my friends have plastic surgery an... 