Audience Quotes

I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.

I definitely enjoy an audience, when I'm performing. As I get older I'm kind of less comfortable at being demonstrative. I always fancied myself as a raconteur, but that never really worked out.

My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains . . . For I feel that the best is none too good for the public that pays to hear a singer.

A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work.

I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better.

Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film.

It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

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 think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

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.

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

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.

I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

I'm not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine.

Bridesmaids proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

The audience requires not information but drama.

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

I remember playing Coachella and seeing kids in the audience who weren't even born when we had our initial run of success. They were singing along to every word, which was an amazing thing to see.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.

My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet, Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore all the subtleties that can happen, which is my favorite part of the music.

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.