Audience Quotes

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.

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

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.

I was playing catch with the European audience.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!

Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.

American audiences are affected by what the English people think.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

The audience and I are friends. They allowed me to grow up with them. I've let them down several times. They've let me down several times. But we're all family.

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?

The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.

I'm not always successful, but I take my job as a storyteller very seriously and want to make sure the audience has as much fun watching it as I am creating it.

On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.

That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.

It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.

I could get an audience into my world and if you can do that, they'll go with you not all the way, but a lot of the way.

In order to have a lasting career you'll need to spend time performing live to build your own audience, as it's not all about social media. Word of mouth still rules.

The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

Once an audience feels that you trust them like you trust a friend, they do become your friends.

I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts.

I knew that I wanted to create rich themes, and something that people might really relate to emotionally. That was the quest, authenticity, and then just to make the audience feel something.

The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and they get to participate in the comedy.