Audience Quotes

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

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

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.

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

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

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.

The Miami Beach audience is the greatest audience in the world!

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.

I never go see live comedy shows because I just sit in the audience thinking, "Here's what I would say. Here's what I would do if I got up there." It drives me crazy.

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.

There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I'm not into all that.

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.

I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control.

Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.

I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but one hundred percent is affected by it.

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

Every show, every audience is different, and I just love leaving the venue feeling like we all know each other a little bit better.

Find one person in the audience and sing to them with all of your heart. And then cast a spell over them. Hoss, if you can't do it with feeling - don't.

Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today.

In general, I think audiences are a lot smarter than people think. So, it's not "know your audience", it's "respect your audience, and really know your content".

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

I love live theater; I like the relationship between the show and the audience. That's my comfort zone, but more than anything, it's what makes me happy.

The Lord our King will hold the door of His heart open for anyone who wants to enter for an audience at any time

I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its own. I focus on that living hydra in the dark.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- Ive got to have them.

In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so they can laugh at you. Don't try to win.

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.