Audience Quotes
I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.
In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.
The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.
If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.
Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.
During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.
It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.
There's something therapeutic about connecting with an audience - when there's something really sort of odd or silly that you think is funny, and conveying it to an audience.
But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.
Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.
If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience feels it too.
The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.
The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation "Dust.
The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.
My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.
I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.
Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.
I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.
I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.
if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.
I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.
When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there.
Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.
And over the course of the last six years, as I've directed more features and commercials, I've become better at articulating exactly how I want the audience to feel.
Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.
When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.
I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.
You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.
I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.
That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.
Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?
I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.
I'm happy about the fact that my audience is very open to new music. They're dying for new music. So all I got to do is get up there and show them what I'm doing, and they go oh yeah, I like that.
There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.
I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.
When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!