Quotes About Audiences

#1. My audiences have given me lots of love as a tennis player. I hope they appreciate my passion for acting.

Leander Paes

#2. I think actors have a greater responsibility when doing comedy. It's as easy as anything to get cheap laughs, but that's not the idea at all. "The slight trip syndrome," we call it. With tragedy one can get away with things a bit more because audiences don't always know how to react.

Peter Bowles

#3. I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.

Bruce Willis

#4. A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I don't know what they think.

Stephan Pastis

#5. On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

Stephen Sondheim

#6. I try to be careful not to put the cart before the horse. I try not to create comedy for other comedians to like. I want everybody to like it. I want audiences to like it, but I also want comedians to like it. I'm selfish. I want everybody to laugh!

Brian Regan

#7. At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

Brett Ratner

#8. Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.

Harsha Bhogle

#9. I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats ... I want audiences to be transported.

Peter Jackson

#10. And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics.

Shannon Miller

#11. If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

Dwayne Johnson

#12. When you start to see things that are well-executed you'll watch a lot of stuff in 3D and see the same scene again in 2D and realize, "Oh, my god, it's like you turned the color off or the sound off." Once you get used to it, I think audiences and the public will want more of it.

Andrew Wight

#13. Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.

Warren Littlefield

#14. I'm at peace with myself. My film just may please audiences. At any rate, it's already a great prize to be part of just 16 films among all of the world cinema out there. I'm tranquil and satisfied.

Michel Ocelot

#15. The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#16. To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.

Ashley Monroe

#17. With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

Johnny Vegas

#18. I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

Ronny Cox

#19. Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

John Green

#20. I always say to audiences of men: "Cooperation beats submission. Trust me."

Gloria Steinem

#21. His [Donald Trump] audiences love it.

Don Gonyea

#22. There's a bit more of a safe distance when you're making a narrative movie, a bit more perspective. Audiences can separate themselves from the harsh reality of the facts a little bit more and think: 'Okay, how do I consider this?'

Tom McCarthy

#23. You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

Terry Eagleton

#24. 'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.

Anurag Kashyap

#25. I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.

Alexander McCall Smith

#26. There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because this is where they can find it. The other magazines tend to share their audiences, which may result in each of them having a smaller market share.

Stanley Schmidt

#27. We try to keep it a classy show, but it certainly is blue at times. And it all depends on the audience, sometimes we've have audiences that don't really want us to go too far in that direction.

Brian Henson

#28. If you want change, it has to be generational. We have this unbelievable opportunity to make that change. Entertainment enables us to entice and educate mass audiences into a shift of consciousness.

Ian Somerhalder

#29. I try to be straight when I communicate with my audiences through a film. I'm not sure whether I have been successful. I don't watch my film once they're in theaters.

Lee Yoon-ki

#30. Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

Mignon McLaughlin

#31. In the act of watching the television news, audiences cross the globe, one moment viewing a scene in a wide aerial shot, the next moment seeing an emotional close up of a victim's face. By extending the physical senses to impossible dimensions, media provide audiences a near metaphysical adventure.

James Houran

#32. Online is such an important platform ... it's all one giant melting pot of talents. The times are changing. It's just art now. You can share your audiences with everyone, and it's exciting.

Lindsey Stirling

#33. When you invest in high-quality brands, it pays off with high-quality audiences and, ultimately, high-quality advertising rates.

Jim Bankoff

#34. My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.

G. Willow Wilson

#35. We have people who pay to use our products and services, and they are heavily engaged in our content. If you erase the brand perceptions of AOL, and consider that people pay to use our properties, you would probably consider this one of the most valuable audiences on the Internet.

Tim Armstrong

#36. Folklore is always changing and evolving for new audiences.

Tomm Moore

#37. I think there's a kind of love relationship between an actor and an audience, and this is something I really feel with the audiences in France.

Francois Cluzet

#38. Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.

Deke Sharon

#39. I've heard a lot of variation of similar questions, but it's interesting to see the variations of audiences and how different people respond, so I think it's all valid. I don't take it personally at this point, which I probably would have at Sundance. But it's really thrilling.

James Ponsoldt

#40. If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

Carlisle Floyd

#41. The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

Nat King Cole

#42. With comedy, the jokes will come out, and people will see them coming. Changes in daily life or current events can change the consciousness of audiences and can make the show less funny or feel more stale.

Robert Lopez

#43. I love to sing with my daughter. Audiences like it because a mother-daughter pairing is a curiosity.

Montserrat Caballe

#44. Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

Anna Held

#45. What I have noticed which I'm not nuts about that the trend that a lot of shows are hiring the American Idol type of talent without real training and real technique and I think that audiences are smart and sometimes seeing that things are not as high caliber as they were before.

Hugh Panaro

#46. I still love it, every day. I get up and I love going to work. I love seeing it all happen, and I admire the people that we work with. I just hope that the films will continue to entertain audiences, as they have done for 50 years.

Barbara Broccoli

#47. There has been foolish talk about audiences having an average twelve-year-old mind: it just isn't true. They are older than anybody, and wiser.

George Burns

#48. In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

Chow Yun-Fat

#49. I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas from the East ... But I'm not interested in using ancient things; rather I want to connect [audiences] with contemporary life through the technology we have now.

Mariko Mori

#50. I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.

Ze Frank

#51. I don't feel those limits when I'm on stage. For some reason, audiences let me get away with things. Remember, it's all comedy. Words. Thoughts. All thoughts are safe and worth exploring.

Louis C.K.

#52. Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

Jennifer Stone

#53. Audiences have become so much more sophisticated, and they're looking for different eyes and different ways to tell a story. And 'Scandal' certainly gives us the freedom to take those chances.

Tom Verica

#54. Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.

Roger Ebert

#55. I don't really think that audiences are that much different. I think that a fan is the same whether you are from here or from Japan - you come to a show because you like the music. I don't really see much of a difference anywhere.

Jason Aldean

#56. When you make something you like and audiences reject it, the experience can be painful. But I've discovered ... that when you make something you aren't exactly satisfied with, and someone tells you it's great, that's even mor ... e painful and frustrating.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

#57. Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing ... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.

Campbell Scott

#58. You need something that no one else is using. And something that is clean enough to play around audiences.

Curtis Granderson

#59. Only audiences decide what's a franchise. Only audiences decide what's a hit. I have always been mindful of not wanting to be the Miami Heat of movies.

Nina Jacobson

#60. Theater audiences don't pull punches. They'll let you know when they're feeling ripped off.

Johnny Galecki

#61. If you look at the big entertainment industry and their pursuit of the bottom line profits in exchange for producing content and distributing that content and marketing that content to inappropriate audiences, that's a problem for me.

Rick Santorum

#62. We love to entertain audiences and this picture does that - it's romantic, it's funny, it's got a nice message and I think it's a gift to the audience to be able to enjoy this movie.

Jerry Bruckheimer

#63. Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.

Eli Roth

#64. I have to expose myself and then accept the judgment that audiences and critics will have. And that's okay. I appreciate the elliptical nature of it. Sometimes people are more in the mood to be nice to me than others, and that's great.

Claire Danes

#65. Beautiful women get in Hollywood's door quickest and then are shut out when their beauty no longer measures up to whatever it is that Hollywood or audiences decide is beautiful enough; once they're inside, their choices are limited by the same beauty that won them their entree.

Steve Erickson

#66. I'm always aware of who my core audiences are and I serve that niche.

Edward Burns

#67. You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That's something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it's always hard to deal with when it actually happens.

Linda Cardellini

#68. I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.

Alexander Kluge

#69. I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

Al Gore

#70. The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.

Fulton J. Sheen

#71. In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

Gail Sheehy

#72. You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Clint Eastwood

#73. As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.

Rupert Holmes

#74. Audiences have proved time and again that they don't want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views - especially if he's a comedian.

Johnny Carson

#75. I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

Jerry Bruckheimer

#76. Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

Jimmy Buffett

#77. If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

David Heyman

#78. Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

Allen Klein

#79. I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.

Hillary Clinton

#80. I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.

Henry Rollins

#81. I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn't mean he can't play different types of roles.

Cillian Murphy

#82. I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

Ziggy Marley

#83. London audiences are tricky, too. They don't laugh as much as the Northern audiences because, and I hate to say this, they are a bit cleverer normally, and they are picking up on all the little details and listening more carefully.

Steve Coogan

#84. Robert Townson at Varese is a huge fan of film music and has really done a lot to educate audiences about film music and scores.

Marco Beltrami

#85. What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.

Kenneth Turan

#86. My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.

Isabella Rossellini

#87. Farce is a much-maligned form. It's easy to do badly, and therefore, audiences may have a negative feeling about it.

Mark Linn-Baker

#88. We want to be a consolidator, not a seller, and we want to continue to explore the kind of targeted entertainment, targeted audiences, that I think are happening and emerging in every country in the world.

Jon Feltheimer

#89. There's been a vacuum with movies that people can relate to. There's been a paucity of dramas that people can relate to. I think audiences are clamoring to connect - particularly after 9/11 - with things that are genuine and real and I think documentaries are filling that need.

George Hickenlooper

#90. If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

Sandra Bullock

#91. I personally have more faith than the average writer in people's willingness to be complicated, and so I'm thrilled by what's happened. I'm elated at audiences' willingness to handle complexity. In some sense, I feel like my belief in what people are capable of is being validated.

Michael Loceff

#92. We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

Miles Davis

#93. There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a bit frightening to think that all I'm doing is jokes and yet someone hates me that much.

Jo Brand

#94. I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

Brian Eno

#95. There are a limited number of promoters out there who care about that. You rarely meet a promoter who's like, "I want to be responsible for the best shows, I want to make sure that these are the best shows these audiences have ever seen."

Will Oldham

#96. You think about taking audiences on a journey.

Sam Mendes

#97. Ringer is the perfect balance of what audiences want ot see me do. It's Cruel Intentions meets Buffy.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#98. Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.

Moby

#99. The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see at that moment.

Christopher Bram

#100. You say some Greek philosophers could dazzle their audiences
with their riddles? That does not interest me at all. Bring
more wine instead and play your lute; your changes in tones
remind me of the wind that rushes past and disappears,
just like us.

Omar Khayyam