Audience Quotes

It's impossible for me to play a part without thinking about the audience.

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

I mean my goal is to get Michael Richards to do stand up at the Laugh Factory to an all black audience.

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.

Jesus defied all of these rules. He taught in the outer courts of the Temple so women could join the audience.

The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.

I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

I always like to be a step ahead of the audience by surprising them and the best way to do that is to not hold back.

Cuban public is special - they participate, generate a lot of energy, both in a positive and negative sense. It's always an expressive audience.

Every week for me was the same audience, and every week they heckled me. The better I got at comedy, the better the audience was at heckling me. But it helped me with my joke writing.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some sort of job.

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.

If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.

When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.

It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.

I hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad.

The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.