Audience Quotes

As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful. I think Rupert is really adept at comedy; I think that's where his strength lies.

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

I've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.

Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the actor can sense the reaction from the audience and quickly move on.

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.

I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

It's more and more difficult to get through to your audience with all of the clutter. This is a great way for Ace to get [its] message out.

Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star.

You never know what an audience is going to think about something. The ones that the audience doesn't get, I tend to let them go. I don't like to dwell on them too much.

The ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people.

If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.

The audience, that's who I care about.

Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.

More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.

I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time.

The children should never be excluded from what I am doing and should never have the feeling of being part of an audience.

Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to sing songs with words, too.

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

I want to build an audience that's willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.

You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually.

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for the audience to relate to them.

I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.

We try to keep it a classy show, but it certainly is blue at times. And it all depends on the audience, sometimes we've have audiences that don't really want us to go too far in that direction.

And if the audience is in a kind of naughty, raunchy mood, then they're going to make naughty, raunchy suggestions and then we take them and we do the scene anyway, and that's part of the fun.

I thought, well, if we're inviting an audience, let's do it right. So I put in a proper studio audience at our studios in Los Angeles and it was just a little showcase and it was just for fun.

I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.

As long as I can make that audience one thing, one unit, then I'm okay with it. But, sometimes, the bigger the audience, the weirder it gets.

You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative.

Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.