Audience Quotes

As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.

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.

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.

From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.

The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.

Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

When we use the word domestic [terrorism], we discount its actual impact as political terrorism, which is, of course, political violence meant to impact an audience outside of the immediate victims.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.

Focus on identifying your target audience, communicating an authentic message that they want and need and project yourself as an "expert" within your niche.

I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.

What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?

Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage and collectively imagines that this is real.

Kids audience is a brilliant audience. If you've got an audience of adults standing up and clapping, or you've got an audience of kids standing up and clapping, I know which one I'd choose.

One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.

It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.

I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect.

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular.

As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

The audience loves it when you pay attention to details.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.

The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.

I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.