Audience Quotes

I love doing sitcoms and I love performing in front of a live audience, so [Payne] was a really fun experience.

For me, it is important to not just tell the audience how the story ended today, but to give a glimpse into how other people's stories might go on, in the future.

You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds.

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

There is a difference when you work with actors who have worked on the stage. When we're out there in front of an audience eight times a week, you can't do it on your own.

This movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is as much for the general market as it is for Latino audiences. That's a really exciting prospect.

We deliberately chose a small theatre so that the show was still intimate and the audience would become a part of the show.

You have a different audience. Your personal energy is different because some days you're energized, some nights you might be tired so that affects your memory and your emotion.

I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.

I have this whole new audience now.

Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.

What is it you want your audience to see? Who is your audience? What does surface signify? Does it carry meaning? Do you fully understand and know what you are doing? WHY are you using encaustic?

There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don't get nervous, you know?

I wouldn't say that my experience making it [the Waitress] was necessarily uplifting, but watching it with an audience, I was surprised at how hopeful it was at the end.

That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful.

You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.

While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.

Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.

I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end.

I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

I'm just not made for that kind of live audience where you don't create a fourth wall.

Improv requires your audience to be informed about what improv is. With stand-up, anybody can sit down and watch stand-up and laugh at jokes.

It's so much harder to make a living off improv. Improv is so rarified and for such a specific audience.

I wish I would tell our audience that we don't hate them without sounding cheesy.

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.

I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy.

This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

I don't mind the audience identifying me with Red.

I would be happier if it were a full audience full of drag queens. It would be my dreams come true.

For 15 years I was a complete arsehole to a dozen people. I said I would try and make it right with those people, and anybody that gave me an audience, I was there.

Even though you're in charge you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show.

If we had an audience to play to, the performance would have gotten too big. Sizing our performances to the camera was an important journey for me at least.

Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.

I still want to get some empathy from the audience, even though she's pathetic.

I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film and those establishment figures on the East Coast.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.