Audience Quotes

Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids.

The thing about having an audience right there laughing is that critics can write what they want, but the proof is right there in front of you.

I'll probably pay more attention to the musicians in the pit than the stars because they're the closest you're going to get to normal people in the audience.

When I do something good, the audience lets me know immediately. They laugh. That's it.

CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.

I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience.

If an audience doesn't get that [Black Snake Moan] is a movie about overcoming exploitation, it could come across as incredibly misogynistic. That would be the worst thing in the world for me.

I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But the camera's different. I think I'm more at home on stage.

Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.

I'd never even thought about compromise when I worked in my studio. The major distinction is in the priority of who I ultimately wanted to please: myself or the audience.

Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.

I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.

For me, once the film is out, it belongs to the audience, and I have to be open to any reaction that comes from it.

Audiences can be very judgmental.

I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for London audiences.

Each audience seems to have a life of its own, which is why watching the show regularly is so exciting, because it's always a different experience.

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.

I usually read a script from an audience perspective first, and then look more closely at the character only.

In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.

The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.

I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.

You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.

'Insane Farting Corpse' is a really hard movie to do a Q&A for. The audience is still kind of reeling and being like, "I don't know what to ask."

I'd rather lose the small part of the audience that is going to be insulted because a documentary shouldn't have music than the big part of the audience that kind of gives itself over to the scene.

I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.

The only I would say is a little different is when I know my parents are in the audience. That's never going to be the same as another concert.

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.

I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.

The audience wants you present, not perfect.

The MacGuffin is that thing which is most important to us - that most essential thing. The audience will supply it, each member for himself.

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.

I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.

I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience.

I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.

Never stop listening to your audience.

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that's pretty much impossible.

I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole new level.