Audience Quotes

I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

My criterion for accepting a role isn't based on what I would like to do. I try to consider what the audience would like to see me do and I thought kids would adore Star Wars.

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

There are four basic emotions - mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your audience, your reader.

I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.

You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.

Making something new to look at is a futile and empty act if its only audience is the eyes.

The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.

We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

An audience can be like a pack of wolves.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

The man who tries to be funny is lost. To lose one's naturalness is always to lose the sympathy of your audience.

I wanted to branch out into American television, specifically because you get to develop a character for a longer period of time and you get to develop a relationship with the audience.

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

I never want to be winking at the audience and saying, "This character is really a nice guy."

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

Honestly I think it was gradual from the first time I came. It's been a gradual thing as far as audience and response wise. I feel like I was conditioned for this type of impact.

Unless you connect to the text, the audience won't be able to connect with you.

Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I'm so happy I did a nice thing.

We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.

I suffer so much in this life. That is what they [the audience] are feeling when I sing, that is why they cry. People who felt nothing in this life cannot sing.

I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?

I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

There’s nothing more emotional than looking out at an audience and knowing they’re there because they understand.

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.

I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community.

A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.

You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.