Audience Quotes

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

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.

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

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

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything.

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.

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond... a good feeling about his art.

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time

I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.

in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.

True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.

In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.

When you go onstage, you go on there to have a good time, and you smile and you engage with the audience and you invite them in.

There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous

I have to wear a new T-shirt every night. I throw them into the audience. One day I'm going to go around the world and reclaim all my T-shirts

I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going

Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.

The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it.

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.

I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.

It's not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what's going on.

I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.

I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.