Audience Quotes

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

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.

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

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.

I don't look down to an audience. I look up to them. They respond to quality.

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

I still think most of my success came from the audience's reaction to me. It's weird when that happens but a lot of it came from what I did inside the ring.

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.

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience.

I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.

I'm like that person who hates going to magic shows - and I love magic, I love wizards - but going to a show where there is any possibility of audience participation is a nightmare for me.

Without love it is like having a good song without an audience.

It's much more fun to share and laugh at the bad times and the frustrations. I find you get a much deeper connection with the audience that way.

In my pictures, you never know, that’s the mystery. It’s just a suggestion and you leave it to the audience to put what they want on it. It’s fashion in disguise.

I do not care to be esthetically tickled in a fancy theater surrounded by an audience drenched in the confident perfume of culture. I can't afford it.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.

I dont know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. Its more than talent and beauty. Maybe its the audience seeing itself in you.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

Our team isn’t changing. … And our mission – to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve – certainly isn’t changing.

We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God....We're here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

I think if you ask the audience to like you, it's all over.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Are you wrestling faster than the audience can process? The answer to that question is often times yes. If that is true, then you are failing.

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?

My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.

Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.

I got to watch Anthropoid with this Czech audience and the story means so much to the Czech people so watching it with that audience was kind of terrifying but they responded very well.

I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me to the audience as best I can.

Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means making a commitment of time and discipline to the process.

When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. … We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward.

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.

When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

The number one quality is charisma. You have to be able to connect with the audience. That is that magic "it" factor that designates a star from someone who is just never going to be a star.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.