Audience Quotes

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

One of the things that EBONY [magazine] has done for years, decades is perspective. They knew what our audience was, they know who we are, so that's what I hope to do with this show.

If you can have a show that has quite strong morals and cover important themes but be able to put them out to a broad audience, that's an interesting thing.

The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.

The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.

I'm always aware of who my core audiences are and I serve that niche.

I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.

I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women.

As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

I think, as an artist, whether you're making people laugh or cry or be frustrated or excited - the fact that you're generating some sort of emotion out of an audience is, to me, worth it.

I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

I get to do stand-up every single day. I love that live energy exchange between the audience and myself, and to get to say the things I want to say and comment on.

Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back.

Any audience, as a rule, goes for a fast number.

There is no better audience for someone in love than someone in love.

Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre.

I'm not going out there and doing the same material every night. I have this amazing audience of fans who have been listening to me, some of them since 1975.

My films have a bold interpretation. They are unapologetic about showing intimacy. Going by the number of people who come to watch my films, this is what our target audience yearns for.

My whole experience into the sitcom world, it was, like, "This is like theater, this is like film... This is a hybrid of everything I love to do. A live audience and rehearsals and... more food!"

If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.

I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.

The thing you realize pretty quickly, though, is that being in front of an audience whose job it is to laugh is a big pressure if the writing is not hilarious.

There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience.

I did five episodes of Townies as Jenna Elfman's boyfriend. I was a guest star, but it was the first time I really got to play laughs in front of a sitcom audience.

I've always loved [Elsa Dorfman] work. I've loved her and her work is so much an expression of her. One of the reasons to make the film is to expose Elsa, hopefully, to a wider audience.

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or whatever - if you want to be in front of an audience, you have to do writing you believe in.

One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.

If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don't want to ever be that.

You would never dream of going on to play a scene in front of an audience at least without having rehearsed it. But you do somehow in front of a camera.

Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.

What some of the early horror genre masters knew, and what I know, is that the audience are perverts, but in the best possible way.

For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.

I do have a strong desire to make films that will take the audience to some uncharted places both tonally and emotionally.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.

You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.

As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with the characters that are unexpected.

You can't wait forever for an audience to get the joke, but you should give them at least two seconds to join in before you go on to the next one.