Audience Quotes

You always have to be ahead of the audience so that they have to always catch up and know the movie's not quite going exactly where you think it's going, or expecting it to be going.

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

I would like to think I've reflected the audience's lives somehow, though it's in this big, false, glamorous arena of movies. I hope people see themselves somehow up on the screen.

I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.

I think sometimes maybe you're going to connect with the audience more than others, but the journey is about getting all there is to get out of this group of people.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.

You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.

Solidly know content you feel passionate about and that your audience needs to know.

Make your goal to do a tremendous amount to improve your audience's lives.

Get into "the state:" Conquer fear by stopping thinking about yourself and instead, focusing 100 percent on how you can best serve your audience.

Take the time to understand your audience's concerns.

You don't necessarily need expensive gear or giant budgets to reach an audience.

People listen to the beat first. So if that doesn't draw people in especially with the audience I cater to, they're definitely about that production.

Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling.

It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience.

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

Being an opener is all about warming up the audience for the main band. That is always fun, pretty easy; there isn't a lot of pressure.

I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.

I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.

I think ultimately a fan is a fan and you can't put new things on the fans mind if you don't have an audience.

Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

I don't mind about the boos from the audience.

Learn your audience and know how to reach them and don't sign anything without a good lawyer and a capable agent.

I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

It's a very satisfying feeling for everyone involved into giving bands a new life - for me, the artists, and the audience.

I'm an audience member first. My inspiration is still based on hunger. Often, when people try to tell me "nobody wants that story; I'm like bullshit because I want it."

You can fall into a trap, worrying too much about what the audience might think, rather than going from the inside out.

It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.

I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.

I do not want my new works to be generated in a market or audience of any kind.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy.

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

The more we can put the camera in a better place, the more we can take the audience on a more extreme journey with that character.

A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

When you go on stage and it's your show, you don't really have to work that hard to win that audience because you've already won them.

Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

I don't need the audience, but sometimes it's nice to have a gauge - not so I know how I feel, but so I get what is or isn't working for moviegoers.

I bet any Sunday could be made as popular at church as Easter is if you made 'em fashion shows too. The audience is so busy looking at each other that the preacher just as well recite Gunga Din.

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.