Audience Quotes

I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that's the reason you're doing television - to get them to come see you in a nightclub.

Obviously the audience has veto power signified by whether they laugh or not, but you-not them-retain the ultimate power to decide what they're going to get the opportunity to laugh at.

It's better to play to the host as though in a real conversation and let the audience listen in- which they are.

Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience.

Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.

The German and the Brazilian market is small. When we went to France they know a lot more, than just the American comics. The audience there was much different.

When you're playing to an audience that isn't your own, it's quite scary.

Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front of a live audience. You get to have fun telling stories.

Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next record they would be ready and receptive.

Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience.

It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took Instagram a year and a half.

I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it.

Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.

Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing for an audience is so anathema to me, it's never bothered me.

Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian.

I've developed an audience over the years and I don't want to loose them.

I was a hangover of that era where they’d say “Take off that medal! Is that a St. Christopher medal? You’re going to lose your audience with that.”

I've spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely.

Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck.

To be on Coast to Coast, you have to be willing to stay awake in the middle of the night. But in return you get a great audience of millions of listeners all across the nation.

The more you defend in the face of a critical audience, the more you polarize.

Sometimes you get an audience that's looking to just explode.

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an interpretation and skills that you may not have as a writer.

Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.

Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.

It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

I find Washington audiences are basically the same as every other audience; they watch me and go, 'Who's idea was it to go see him? And is it too late to ask for my money back?'

I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.

...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.

That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.

Good live theater disturbs molecules. You create an energy source around yourself and it alternates between you and the audience. Anybody who sees live theater should come out a little rearranged.

When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone real to identify with.

Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?

Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

The better your audience, the more energy you have, and the more energy you have, the better show you do. The better show you do, the more they love it, and the more energy they give back to you.

My audience is often hands-up, standing and cheering and on tables and all of that kind of things.

Acting is about truths and the more truths you're able to tell and share with your audience the more connection there will be.

I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

I'd like to think that if you find your audience there are still opportunities there to go and tell an original story.

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.

A lot of YouTubers, because they have such pride in what they do, have a negative connotation towards television. I don't feel that way. I feel like it's another medium to reach a broader audience.

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

I love Twitter. Twitter for me is twofold. I can use it to get out important information about charity stuff and where Im going to be, and I can get feedback from the audience which I love.

When you have a TV show or when you are running a magazine, you have to remember that your audience isn't rich. They're not made of money.

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.

An audience's or individual's reaction to my work is simply their reaction.

As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.