Audience Quotes
Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.
The Net is the ultimate empowerment tool. You have the right to express your opinion to a global audience, but everyone has the right not to pay any attention to it.
Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.
I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.
You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.
So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.
In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act and you're in the audience
The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.
My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth.
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.
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.
Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.
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.
You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.
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.
I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.
And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.
The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.
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.
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.
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums.
I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that.
And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that.
Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.
I never tell the audience what to think of me. When I talk, how you consume it is up to you.
I can pretty much guarantee that if I do a show in a comedy club, there will be someone who will come out of the audience and tell me the worst joke ever. It's just a guarantee.
Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.
On stage I'm basically spiritually feeding all of these people in the audience, and making sure they're encouraged to connect with God.
The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
