Top 100 Quotes About Audience
#1. I always wanted it to be multi-cam from the beginning. In the first seeds of the idea, I wanted a live audience, multi-cam show. That was very important for me.
John Mulaney
#2. If your opponent wants to fight, the fight will be very interesting not just for the audience, but for myself.
Vitali Klitschko
#3. I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.
Sanaa Lathan
#4. My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.
Rick Moranis
#5. We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go.
Robert Wilson
#6. My criterion for accepting a role isn't based on what I would like to do. I try to consider what the audience would like to see me do and I thought kids would adore Star Wars.
Peter Cushing
#7. I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.
Alexa Vega
#8. The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works.
Jack Abramoff
#9. So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
Fergie
#10. I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.
Brooke Burke
#11. McCarthy in his typical wild swinging fashion, with no regard for facts but with a hold on his audience that is frightening,
Judy Blume
#12. I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don't need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me.
Mark Roberts
#13. President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.
William Safire
#14. I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward finding or writing songs and putting out hit songs that drive people coming to see me live. Because, at the end of the day, that's what I enjoy the most.
Luke Bryan
#15. One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.
William Safire
#16. 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.
Tom Conti
#17. One thing about television, it brings out personality. People are able to watch me in action. They hear my voice and see my eyes. There's nothing I can hide. That's me. Television brings out your flaws, your weaknesses, your strengths, and you truths. The audience either likes you or it doesn't.
Donald Trump
#18. We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an interpretation and skills that you may not have as a writer.
Gerald Seymour
#19. We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too.
Benny Anderson
#20. Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.
David Mamet
#21. Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#22. I don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.
Samaire Armstrong
#23. You can always spot the scientist at a strip club, because he is the only one examining the audience.
Michio Kaku
#24. So that's how we go on acting dramas in our theater of the mind even when we don't believe anymore in the audience or the director or the play.
Anne Rice
#25. I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.
Martha Plimpton
#26. Without love it is like having a good song without an audience.
Fanny Brice
#27. The greatest challenge on the Web in the twenty-first century is to connect with your target audience in a way that enriches both them and you.
David Amerland
#28. I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.
Shawn Ryan
#29. The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
Fiona Shaw
#30. 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.
Bruno Mars
#31. LOOK, DO YOU really want a detailed description of two sex robots going at it like a pair of bonobos on day release from celibacy camp in front of an audience of jaded aristocrats?
Charles Stross
#32. I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn't really talk to the audience. I didn't see that being a part of this band.
Ric Ocasek
#33. Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.
Alan Cumming
#34. [Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is ... thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'
Bill Hicks
#35. 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.
J.J. Abrams
#36. They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed ... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all.
Peter Shaffer
#37. 'Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.
Zachary Knighton
#38. When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.
Peter Hook
#39. It's so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that there are no props or costumes or furniture, so the performers can be anywhere doing anything; cut from underground to space, and it doesn't matter.
Andy Daly
#40. The films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience's misconceptions.
Josephine Decker
#41. What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.
Scott Aukerman
#42. When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old enough now to identify them very strongly as being young - whereas before, of course they were young, because you were young. Now it's not like that.
Martin Amis
#43. Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.
Bret Easton Ellis
#44. Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
Abhishek Bachchan
#45. I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.
Ryan Gosling
#46. But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.
Evan Davis
#48. If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
Jack Lemmon
#49. Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.
Vir Das
#50. The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.
Eric Maisel
#51. Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.
Shirley Booth
#52. A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.
Howard Barker
#53. The former slave told his audience that there is little necessity on this occasion to speak at length and critically of this great and good man, and of his high
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#54. For all that Tron wanted to be, it ultimately had to be a fun ride for the audience and I was going to be one of the comic characters, and he was really on top of that. He was having such a good time doing it. That's my memory of it. I'd love to work with him again. I think he's great.
James Frain
#55. The great times are when you put a game on location and see others play it for the first time. After all, we are really kind of an entertainer. You perform for the joy of the audience.
Eugene Jarvis
#56. Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
Francesca Annis
#57. I want to be embraced by the audience, but it's fun to stir up the pot.
Michael Trucco
#58. I think people get too comfortable, in just doing what they do every week. And I'm all about challenge and change, and I like to read the audience.
Trish Stratus
#59. You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.
Walter Martin
#60. 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.
Lucy Hawking
#61. There's a gratification that comes from performing in front of a live audience, and you can't replicate that with anything else. In the studio, the creation part of this business is fun. But, when you see the fans letting you know that they enjoy what you're doing, that's why I keep doing what I do.
Trace Adkins
#62. Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front of a live audience. You get to have fun telling stories.
Gabrielle Dennis
#63. In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup. If there is action elsewhere on the stage, the comic line can be lost.
James Carver
#64. The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
Oscar Isaac
#65. All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
Jane Alexander
#66. No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.
Agnetha Faltskog
#67. I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.
Henry Rollins
#68. It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
Vince Vaughn
#69. If you're a professional athlete, and after the game, you're eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating at? You're making a mistake.
John Salley
#70. When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
Aubrey Plaza
#71. 'Suits' fans. I've never met a more diverse audience: across gender, race, class. It's incredible. People who are high-powered lawyers to doormen. A Chinese immigrant cable installer - who barely spoke English - loves 'Suits!'
David Costabile
#72. Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.
Joey Fatone
#73. The thing with playing live is, most of the audience is in their 20s and 30s. If you're older than that, you don't tend to go out to shows anymore. So it's good if you can attract a younger audience because they've got the energy to get up off the sofa and go out.
Colin Hay
#74. I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.
David Almond
#75. You look at John Travolta in 'Pulp Fiction', you look at Donnie Wahlberg in 'The Sixth Sense.' People have liens against them in crazy ways and the audience is always forgiving - if you prove it.
Seth Green
#76. What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you hit the stage you have a "common" feeling. Even though you're the performer and they're the audience there's something uniting everybody in the room.
Joel Plaskett
#77. TV is easier: it's all planned out for you, and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up, but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over. To me, that's more pure.
Drew Carey
#78. There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.
Elizabeth Hernandez
#79. I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.
John C. Reilly
#80. I always think it's just best to just make stuff and to carry on making stuff, even if it's not off your own back, because that's the only way ... especially as a comedy writer, I make short films and then show them to live audience, so if they're laughing you know you're doing something right.
Alice Lowe
#81. I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.
Erykah Badu
#82. I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.
Natalie Cole
#83. I never want to be winking at the audience and saying, "This character is really a nice guy."
Vik Sahay
#84. Golf is a nice game, but that's all. It's never going to be an exciting game to watch on TV. It's not a circus and never will be one. The audience for golf is not going to change significantly. It's always going to be people who play it, understand it, and love it.
Jack Nicklaus
#85. social media marketing will work well if you genuinely care about providing value to your audience.
M.J. Brown
#86. Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.
Annie Dillard
#87. I will never lose anything that an audience will miss.I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
Adam Shankman
#88. Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.
Richard Gere
#89. I want to make a film that is commercially successful because that means that the larger cinema-going audience around the world like the movie, which is my goal. That's my job, to make films that people respond to.
Neill Blomkamp
#90. I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.
Giorgio Moroder
#91. Put me on telly, and I think I have a relaxation on camera that makes an audience relax, too. It's not a conscious thing. Cameras don't bother me, whereas other people try to perform to them.
Kevin Whately
#92. You must constantly persist to imprint your brand image on the mind of your audience
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#93. An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.
Joseph Addison
#94. I see my life flashing before me when I see people in the audience singing along to something I wrote in the '80s, and they're maybe standing next to someone who knows the more recent stuff.
Dave Pirner
#95. I feel like with our shows it always feels weird to be performers on stage and not engaging in audience interaction in some way - that exchange of energy is very much a part of the sound.
Taraka Larson
#96. PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
Ambrose Bierce
#97. Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.
Andy Taylor
#98. Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.
Antonin Artaud
#99. I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.
Robert Downey Jr.
#100. It's such a rare and rewarding thing to be in control of space and time for two hours a night, to go through a journey and take the audience along. There's nothing quite like it.
Jefferson Mays
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