Audience Quotes

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.

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.

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

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

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

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

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.

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.

That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense.

The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.

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

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.

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

When you sell a product or service, you're making a promise to your audience. If you don't understand your audience, you'll never be able to keep that promise and you'll ultimately let them down.

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

EA: Is it the smoke that smells like vanilla? Audience: Yeah. EA: Yeah, they do that to mask the chemicals that are actually killing you.

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.

If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

Audiences have kept me alive.

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.

We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.