Audience Quotes

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.

I think honesty is a big part. Because when you sing live, you want the audience to believe you.

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

Too many comics today ramble. By the time they get to the punch line, the audience has either gone to sleep, gone to the bathroom or gone to bed.

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.

Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.

Having an audience is almost like plugging me into an electrical outlet. People feed me so much of their energy. We have a great time. It's all about the fellowship.

Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.

I do not write for an audience

Audiences deserve better.

There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is instinctly felt by an audience and is reflected in the superiority of his work

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.

I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes you can't relate to your character at all.

I think it's important to keep the audience interested. But the best advice that I've gotten is to live in the moment. Sometimes you can get too into your head when you're in a scene.

The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.

You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.

I'm the audience's representative on earth.

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

Lead with a personal story. Give your audience a way to connect and show you're a real person.

Comedy is quite difficult, you have to be able to have fun and portray that sense of fun to the audience watching you.

Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience to whom those people wrote.

If you miss one class, you know it; if you miss two classes, your teacher knows it, and if you miss three classes, the audience knows it

Sports are, and should be, a joy. And it delights me that the joy I felt through the years of broadcasting games was projected onto the audience.

Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.