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Rita Rudner Quotes

Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

Rita Rudner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: September 17, 1955

Topics

Me Timing Stage Audience Singer Act

Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's.

John McWhorter

People Bond Language Complicated

Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.

Mia Wasikowska

Dance You Person Way Become Intense

I'm into something that definitely does require your attention, and with that, you're not going to run out of things to do. You're never going to be the master of music.

Roscoe Mitchell

Music Attention You Run Never Out

Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that's the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.

Rush Limbaugh

Business Politics People Political

We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.

Martina Hingis

You Lucky Watch Against Cup Get

With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that edge and hit bottom with a thud. Nothing abstract about that. You know you went too far when you hear that groan or worse - that silence instead of the big laugh you were expecting following your hilariously edgy joke.

Michael Patrick King

Live Silence Laugh You Fall Edge

Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.

Jason Silva

Music Moments You Perfect Movies

Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to getting a role, you don't have any friends, you're incredibly competitive and any actor who tells you different is lying.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Friends You Down Rome Hollywood

You go from being with the guys all the time in the locker room, in practice, having a militarized brain in terms of this schedule, and then, all of a sudden, you are on your own. You lose a sense of purpose; you lose a sense of yourself. And you lose confidence. You find yourself saying, 'I was the best at this, and now I'm not the best.'

Chris Bosh

Confidence Time Best Yourself Brain

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

Alice James

Fun You Dying Tell Anything Where

We might be more inclined to think about the longer term if we were more aware of what is happening around us. Perhaps daily weather forecasts could include a few basic facts about the Earth's vital signs or details of where climate change is increasing the likelihood of damaging weather?

Prince Charles

Change Daily Weather Think Details

We are entertainers. We have to give our audience a good time. If my name serves that purpose, if that brings a smile on your face, then I think it is good and my job has been done.

Tiger Shroff

Smile Good Time Job Purpose Face