Audience Quotes

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience.

People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.

The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.

My mother, I want her to like my music, but she's not exactly my target audience. So I care more about the fans in general, just making sure they enjoy what I do.

It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.

Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the lowest levels of audience interest.

Music that touches the transcendental aspect of a human being is reserved for a marginal audience

Everyone can lock into the rhythm on a tune. It's organic in nature. It connects the band as a whole and connects the band to the audience.

Part of standup is being loose and having a good time yourself and that translates to the audience.

Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.

Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has never seen us before and hearing it for the first time. We are aware of that.

Songs like "Spirit Carries On" really gets the audience moved and on the same page. It's challenging and all so much fun to play.

You've got to write for your audience.

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.

You don't have to underestimate your audience anymore. They'd actually like to laugh a little bit. So, the character came to me and once it's got its grips in you, there's nowhere to go.

I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.

I love the idea of changing my look. I think one owes it to the audience, to go out there and give them something different each time, so as not to bore them to death.

I think any time you can go after an audience that isn't built in, that's the job.

It's always been about when I do theater, the audience is just a viewer, not taking part in what's onstage. Whereas if you're doing stand-up, it's inclusive.

If you're doing stand-up, there is no fourth wall; you're engaging an audience.

[Doogal] wasn't even animated. It was still and the audience had to move.

I’ve always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

I don't like the theatre. I like plays in which the audience is addressed by the actors. I don't like seeing people talking to each other on stage as if there isn't an audience.

The nature of a movie story is you have to keep charging forward and keep the audience with the story.

If people are talking about my weight cut all the time and are telling me how skinny I like, you have to respect the audience. You also have to respect all of the fighters who do this.

I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.

Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect.

I know how to make an audience laugh, 'cause I grew up on Third Rock from the Sun, week after week in front of audiences, making them laugh.

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

The movies I make and my interests are always about pushing the technology as far as we can in support of telling great stories and showing an audience things they haven't seen before.

The films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience's misconceptions.

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

I like art that trusts its audience, that's written for readers who like to work hard. I like art that knows its readers are up to the challenge of interacting with difficult material.

When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.

Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may have never even heard of Jesus.

I think Jim [Carrey], in the best possible way, thought, "I need to do different things to establish to the audience that I'm not going to do the same thing every time."

The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more.

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.

I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.

I've done a lot of pilots, and they're all so expositional. In the beginning, I think that it is important to make sure that the audience is invested in us.

When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

I like the opportunity to play characters who have these dark sides but make the audience empathize with them. You want them to think there is some kind of sweeter, softer side to it.

I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.

I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.