Audience Quotes

The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.

It's just hard to say, "Well, I do this, which means this." If I'm telling you exactly who I am, then there's nothing for the audience to say.

I don't think half my stuff would be funny if the audience didn't feel at least a little bit safe that it's not how I truly feel.

My audience is going to die before I do.

I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an audience that's so tuned in and plugged in to what's going on.

One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience.

To me, humor is part of a conversation with an audience.

At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.

We love bringing verisimilitude to audiences, hopefully having experiences you'll never have.

The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.

I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.

You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.

When you focus on delighting an audience you care about, you strip the masses of their power.

Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

By giving our audience intimate access to the lives of musicians, we hope to raise awareness of the region's beautiful cultural heritage and present a more nuanced portrait of its people.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.

I'm not big with an audience; I get very nervous.

We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

Last thing you want to do with a good movie is hold the audience hostage. As an entertainer myself, I just know it's better when you leave 'em wanting more than to stick around too long.

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

The audience should go out and see Shark Night 3D because you can bring your whole family.

I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience.

When I was developing St. Lucia - around 2008, 2009, at the peak of Pitchfork culture - what was considered cool was being as alienating to your audience as possible.

If you put me in South Park, that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

I love being onstage, I love the relationship with the audience.

You have to have a passionate opinion; otherwise you sound false. You end up telling the audience jokes they've already heard.

I have a generally liberal audience, but they will applaud when I nail a liberal lion.

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

There's really no way of ever knowing how the audience is going to respond to any episode or change.

It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to make movies that appeal to mass culture.

When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that they like me or at least find me relevant. And that I can still do it.

I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.

My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.

I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.

I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.