Audience Quotes

Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

I think a mistake a lot of people make is to identify a target audience and then work backwards into creating a product for them.

I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture.

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

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.

So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.

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

I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are.

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.

My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like.

Horror films are art, it's all make believe. It's great if a filmmaker can try to push boundaries and see how much an audience can take and see what happens. It's fun to be able to do that.

Folklore is always changing and evolving for new audiences.

I always feel the audience is my best teacher.

The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same reaction that you would actually have to whatever's going on.

The least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to.

The metal press has a certain type of audience, and I think most of them support the magazines' negative focus on me.

The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don't feel good about.

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.

The Internet is an audience of one, a million times over.

I like doing movies with kids in them, and you're explaining things. They're teaching you and you're teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.

The only difference with wrestling is we're like a live performance. So we're feeding off the audience and if they do't like something, they can let us know immediately.

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, "Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen."

With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it's your job to make them laugh.

[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here.

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.

In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and Ive managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.

Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests.

If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.

I'm able to reach a wider audience, an older audience. I can gladly say that I'm definitely not a bubblegum princess anymore.

Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.