Audience Quotes

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.

The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.

I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

Who is the public now that it has changed color?

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything

The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

Deepak Chopra, look at him. He's probably the most successful self-help guru in the world. I don't think he's struggling for any marketing or exposure. You've just got to know where your audience is.

[About Paz De La Huerta....] And there is this girl in the audience and she's gorgeous I can only kind of see her silhouette and she's getting like her t*ts out and I'm like: God, that's unusual.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

Take my wife... please. I'm not saying she's ugly, but when she went to see a horror film, the audience thought she was making a personal appearance.

The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.

Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

Radio helps DJs break into a whole different audience. Radio has so much power. And that's my mission: to not only break into the EDM audience, but to break also into the mainstream audience.

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

I'm not sure if the audience can smell tuna but the special guest each show definitely can.

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who are part of a particular audience that really makes a difference to me in writing.

Once you stay true to just having a good time and being honest to your fans and your audience, you can't go wrong.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

I don't think people shouldn't try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

I think people get too comfortable, in just doing what they do every week. And I'm all about challenge and change, and I like to read the audience.