Audience Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 audience is the barometer of the truth.

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

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.

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

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.

There are points where you worry that you might be putting too much in and alienating the audience. But, funnily enough, some of those fears aren't correct.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I've enjoyed watching.

It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.

It was important that I learn that what I wanted was no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, audience, and competition.

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

I was playing catch with the European audience.

All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.

Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.