Audience Quotes

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

You have to simplify - there is no other way to reach a mass audience. And you have to feed them evidence of their own success to keep them motivated.

One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.

As long as I have a good time, the audience usually has a good time.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

My parents were my worst audience.

For 45 years I've worked without an audience.

If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

If you can truly believe what you are pretending to do is really happening, then your audience will believe it, too.

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

I think that's the fundamental thing - you can go anywhere you like as long as you're following a character that the audience likes and understands.

You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.

National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.

Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters.

If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good.

When you have an audience, and you have people who want to see your character and want to see you, it's really amazing.

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

I use Twitter as a tool to get involved with people, to sell tickets to gigs where I can stand in a room and smell the audience - and I love that!

I like audiences to crane their necks.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have seen at least one of his plays.

The audience can feel the subtleties of the characters.

I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable.

I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.

News media stimulate bubbles, since stories about them boost their audience.

If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them.

Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.

I always think that you have to have a certain understanding of what an audience would want to see from you as a public person as well as a character.

In fact, I think more broadly about what an audience requires, but I want an audience to be fascinated by the process of finding an answer, or finding out there isn't one.

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

I'm disappointed in television. I'm disappointed first of all in the audience that will not let stories be told in longer form.

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

The States still has the best audiences by far.

I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard what your audience wants.