Audience Quotes

So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

I'm still a fanboy geek. I always will be. In many ways, if my work still resonates with the audience, it's because I'm still writing from the point of view of the fan, so I'm geeked out constantly.

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

this is every musician's dream, to stand in front of an audience and not have to prove your credentials.

I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

Political audiences are not fun.

His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.

The audience falls in love with a leading man because he'll never belong to any of them.

I love albums that have guest performers that the audience will be happy to hear. It's really a bonus!

Sometimes audiences love you because they get to boo you.

As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?

It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go

You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.

You don't look down at your feet. A lot of comedians want to look down at their feet, but you break contact with the audience.

Write backwards. Start from the feeling you want the audience to have at the end and then ask "How might that happen?" continually, until you have a beginning.

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.

I guess it's pretty diverse, but I do have quite a 30-and-older male audience coming out to the shows. I don't know if that's due to me being a female or what.

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

No matter what, I want to experience a sense of peace while talking. As I look out into the audience, Ill remember to breathe and notice that at my core there is peace.

Their [Phoenix] audience wasn't into us at all. The way most of the venues worked was there was no alcohol on the floor so usually during our set most people were in the lobby getting their drink on.

I like talking; I like playing with the audience.

Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"

I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car culture or the depiction and placement of a candy bar.

I always think the audience sometimes wants what you're not giving them.

Audiences can tell when you're being fake and they will eat you alive. But if you're doing something authentic they will connect to it and that can lead to commercial success.

I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.

You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to.

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.

I miss live audiences, because it's like no other form of entertainment, where the audience is a major part of the production every night.

I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play.

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.

If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.

I don't think I ever worry too much about what our target audience is, what we should be releasing. I just write naturally and organically and try to write from the heart.

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

There are obviously people who want to be very niche, but I think for the most part everybody is trying to reach a larger audience.

All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered - no laughter, no tears, no purgation.

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.