Quotes About The Best Audience

#1. I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

Gary Oldman

#2. Moms aren't the best audience for medication humor.

David Levithan

#3. The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.

Alben W. Barkley

#4. Allen Anderson speaks from the heart about subjects he loves; this enthralls audiences everywhere. His outlook is realistic but invariably positive, encouraging everyone to expect the best. Audience feedback is replete with superlatives.

Henry Koster

#5. Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.

Johnny Cash

#6. I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.

Todd Solondz

#7. As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.

James McAvoy

#8. I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

Carol Burnett

#9. Blind people are the best audience; they will be treated according to the formula; it's easy to excite them; it's easy to wake them up from a dream in which they dull, mute and helpless, await excitement - another product of the plastic reality, another star-studded name.

Dejan Stojanovic

#10. My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.

Alex Trebek

#11. I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over.

Alan Ruck

#12. If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

Mads Mikkelsen

#13. Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner.

David Wolfe

#14. A responsive audience is the best encouragement an actor can have.

Al Jolson

#15. 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.

Iliza Shlesinger

#16. Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.

Nathan Lowell

#17. I can't say what my greatest strength between acting and singing is ... I'll leave that to the critics. Maybe my best strength is performance itself, being with the audience and feeling what they feel, bouncing off of them.

Erica Schroeder

#18. You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.

Anna Kendrick

#19. I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience - at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways. When I'm performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.

Billie Jean King

#20. I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.

Shania Twain

#21. I always like to be a step ahead of the audience by surprising them and the best way to do that is to not hold back.

Anna Camp

#22. In acting, you are fulfilled if you give justice to your role ... if you are able to do a credible performance and touch the audience. Same with directing. If you are able to draw out the best from your actors, then you fulfill your job as a director.

Timothy Hutton

#23. Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.

Seth Godin

#24. When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

Rick Moranis

#25. Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.

Jim Carrey

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

Maurice Sendak

#27. One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.' Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining.

Rob Sheffield

#28. I think it's important to keep the audience interested. But the best advice that I've gotten is to live in the moment. Sometimes you can get too into your head when you're in a scene.

Liana Liberato

#29. North American cinema is the only true weapon of mass destruction. It has achieved to convince the audience not only that it's the best possible cinema, but that it is the only.

Arturo Ripstein

#30. They're the best critics. Workshops are good, and drama teachers are fine, but the best is the audience. And even better if they're paying!

George Takei

#31. The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Oliver Goldsmith

#32. I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there.

Barbra Streisand

#33. My show is constantly evolving ... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped ... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.

David Copperfield

#34. Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites ... some of the best acted and directed work to be found on American stages, engaging with the canon of world dramatic literature in a vigorous way.

Tony Kushner

#35. The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they're teaching. Most commonly, that person spent their lives studying that subject, and they bring an infectious enthusiasm to the audience.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#36. The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.

Aries Spears

#37. Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble

Paul Lynde

#38. A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don't care about.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#39. My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends.

Joe Rogan

#40. Intensity is both the communicator's best friend and worst enemy. To really hold an audience, they must sense that what you are saying is important, at least to you.

Calvin Miller

#41. You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.

Tamora Pierce

#42. Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.

Taran Killam

#43. Technology isn't a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you're cheating your audience. You're not giving them the best story and the best direction and so forth.

Stan Lee

#44. Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think 'Mad Men' is wonderful. I think 'Breaking Bad' is wonderful. But let's remember they're about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.

Leslie Moonves

#45. I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best I can at every moment

Jeff Coffin

#46. You don't really know how your film is going to turn out, but you can give it your best shot and hope the audience loves it. This has been my approach right from the beginning, and it's helped me a lot in my journey. All you can do is give the film your everything.

Katrina Kaif

#47. The on-brand execution of best practices tailored to your unique audience is what leads to the best execution.

Chad White

#48. The audience has always been my best director.

Eartha Kitt

#49. When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.

L. Ron Hubbard

#50. I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or whatever - if you want to be in front of an audience, you have to do writing you believe in.

Ethan Hawke

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

Charlton Heston

#52. The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can't be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.

Akira Kurosawa

#53. I am very proud of what 'Johnny' achieved in stand-up comedy because he believed entirely in giving an audience the best kick he could. But he was someone who was quite detrimental to my health, both emotionally and physically.

Johnny Vegas

#54. As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.

Marie Lu

#55. The best games are the ones that thrill the audience while the players thrill themselves.

Will Lawson

#56. The best way to get your audience larger and more consistent is to be more divisive and more radical and criticize those who cater to or kowtow to other forces.

Norman Ornstein

#57. At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury.

James Gray

#58. So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever.

Rachel Maddow

#59. I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

Lesley Garrett

#60. When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist.

Rokia Traore

#61. Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

Gary Wolf

#62. I think the atmosphere of a Prom concert can change your life, in the best way. It's so deep, the feeling you have there. The audience is so close, and there are so many of them, that you feel they are almost embracing you.

Gustavo Dudamel

#63. Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.

Wayne Coyne

#64. Always use $$$ where possible Using a monetary value is always the best way to hold your audience's attention and have them remember the KPI.

Brian Clifton

#65. The best illusions aren't a matter of technology, but of performance. First, you open the minds of the audience. Then you fill them with exactly what you want them to know.

Dan Koboldt

#66. The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.

Steve Coogan

#67. For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

Quintilian

#68. I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.

B.B. King

#69. Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.

Greg Ginn

#70. I need the gays at the shows. If I don't have the gays, I just go nuts, because they always know every word and they're the best core audience you can have.

Courtney Love

#71. I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.

Tony Bennett

#72. Kids are the audience I know best.

Rick Riordan

#73. As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.

Tim Crouch

#74. I think my audience is smart. If there's a way to be entertained and get things out - real things, not stupid moral crap - that's the best.

Michael Pitt

#75. All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the audience's sympathy. The Wolf Man didn't want to do all those bad things. He was forced into them.

Lon Chaney Jr.

#76. In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an enthusiastic audience in my husband, so it seemed only logical that I should learn how to cook 'la cuisine bourgeoise' - good, traditional French home cooking.

Julia Child

#77. Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

Jessica Savitch

#78. The best sounds a kid will get is in a movie theater, with huge speakers, turned up loud. I always mix my music really loud. I don't care if you don't hear all the dialogue. The audience are not idiots.

John Hughes

#79. The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

Robert Bly

#80. You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.

Kevin Spacey

#81. Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.

Francis Ford Coppola

#82. I love audiences. My God, the best friends in the world!

Elaine Stritch

#83. There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

Hal Holbrook

#84. Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.

Damon Lindelof

#85. We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

Anthony Liccione

#86. People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd get letters from kids' mothers saying, "What's the best way to get blood stains out of my son's shirt?"

Ozzy Osbourne

#87. At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my best. I think the audience respected and loved what I did at the Olympics, and that helped me become the world champion in 1997.

Olena Vitrychenko

#88. Voice work is the best - no need to dress up, no audience, no pressure, nobody's judging you.

Kym Whitley

#89. It's never been easier for audiences to skip, filter, or avoid advertising, so the best ideas are the ones that respect that the audience needs to get something out of the work; it should inspire, satisfy, or motivate them. You can't just bombard people with messages anymore.

Ajaz Ahmed

#90. My best audience and where I'm happiest is in the gay community. That's where I feel the most accepted. It's a community that appreciates pop culture like no other. For me, that's where I'm home and I always want to come home.

Katerina Graham

#91. The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.

Bill Hader

#92. I think improvisation is a technique and a tool. I think that even the best of them fail most of the time, and in the end, the audience is not interested in how you got there but in what you're saying. The more clearly and concisely and artistically you say it, the more effective it is.

Bernard Sahlins

#93. With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best.

Rik Mayall

#94. I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.

Daniel Tosh

#95. a great publicity is a high way to remote customers and a universal key to the gate of ignorance

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#96. It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.

Vince Gilligan

#97. In the best-case scenario, the audience sees themselves in your shoes. The only way you can do that is if you try to play it as if it was happening to you.

Jay Baruchel

#98. Every audience has a personality. Some of them don't have the best personalities, but you're on a date with them for an hour and a half, so you just make the best of it.

Rita Rudner

#99. In a very real sense, we are complicitous in their achievement, since we are the audience for which they were performing; knowing we would be watching helped to keep them on their best behavior.

Joseph J. Ellis

#100. I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

Chris Abani