Audience Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

For me, clothes mean self-expression. You need to have an audience and connect with people. Fashion is shared. It connects people. And we share an experience beyond the clothes.

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

You've got to capture an audience. You don't go out there and just sing, or just play. If you can't capture an audience, you might as well not be out there.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

The audience is never wrong.

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

When I go the cinema, unfortunately nowadays, especially with the big commercial films, the audience is spoon-fed through the entire experience and they don't have to do any work.

What is the main problem of the actor? It is to keep the audience awake, and not let them go to sleep, then wake up and go home feeling they've wasted their money.

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.

You cannot fool an audience.