Audience Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you are playing to the wrong audience.

There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you're playing it or you're receptive, as an audience.

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril.

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

If your sleight of hand causes you to break eye contact with your audience, it is too advanced for your skill level.

I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.

The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.

Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

You've got to change with the public's taste.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

I just love the world around me and wanted my audience to love and appreciate it too.

The other thing that has made playing live for me more enjoyable is the audience. I never knew I had such heartfelt, loving fans.

Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience not a national audience.

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you knew it.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.

Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better.

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again.

As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.

Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage.