Top 100 Quotes About Your Audience
#1. We know that those things to which we have an emotional connection stick with us better than those for which we have none. Dramatization is a way to get your intellectual ideas across to your audience emotionally.
Brian McDonald
#2. What I love about the theater is that you know who you're acting for: your audience. And the thing I find really hard in film is, you don't. The audience is invisible. And we're sitting there, hoping there's other people out there.
Cate Blanchett
#3. If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.
Kurt Loder
#4. Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.
Dale Carnegie
#5. As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.
Chang Chen-yue
#6. 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
#7. I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
Umberto Eco
#8. You can't expect the level of excitement of your audience to be greater than your own.
Richie Norton
#9. If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.
Martin Gore
#10. If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
Gustav Mahler
#11. Stop selling hard to your pals, most of the time they are just not your audience
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#12. One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.
Ethan Hawke
#13. I've always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
Tom Waits
#14. 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
#15. Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.
Seth Godin
#16. New research into cognitive functioning - how the brain works - proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information. Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.
Carmine Gallo
#17. Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.
Carmen Agra Deedy
#18. You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.
Lyle Lovett
#19. As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.
Tom Irwin
#20. When you change the way you see yourself as a speaker, the speaker your audience sees will change." CARMINE GALLO You
Carmine Gallo
#21. When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.
Charles Fleischer
#22. The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.
Kevin Hart
#23. I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age).
Kishore Kumar
#24. You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will not care by what road you brought them there; and they will never reproach you for having excited their emotions in spite of dramatic rules.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#25. While paying attention to positive and negative feedback is very important, it is not enough. What also matters is acknowledging and responding to this feedback. This is how you nurture your relationship with your audience.
Cendrine Marrouat
#26. When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you.
Joan Rivers
#27. As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. You have to write the script, get money for the script, shoot it, find distributors, make it into film festivals, all of that just to get to your audience.
Morley
#28. The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
Grimes
#29. With touring, it's like you're in this car and you've got this much fuel. You know that if you drive carefully and take your time and search your way so that you don't take the wrong turn, you'll have exactly enough fuel to go where you're going. You are empowered as you go by your audience.
Lisa Gerrard
#30. Your friends and family aren't your audience and neither should they be.
Christian Cook
#31. Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.
Nancy Duarte
#32. Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie
#33. 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
#34. One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.
Melissa Rosenberg
#35. I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot, developing relatable characters and keeping your audience invested in your story. My books are basically structured like three-act plays.
Suzanne Collins
#36. A platform is what defines your visibility with your audience.
Geraldine Solon
#37. By believing your work is a 'gift,' it radically changes what you create. I think this is a revolutionary idea. It's no longer about client approval or a paycheck, but aspiring to make work that has meaning and purpose in your life and for your audience.
James Victore
#39. Understand your audience and you will understand the impact of your message on each follower in your social media networks.
Matt Gentile
#40. I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.
Gil Scott-Heron
#41. You have to be really willing to embrace life and life's turns, and play that for your audience, because there is value in every moment of that journey.
Lesley Ann Warren
#42. As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.
Jonathan Stroud
#43. Determining who the members of your audience are is the most important piece in the business puzzle.
Cendrine Marrouat
#44. You have to keep surprising your audience.
Shane Black
#45. Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
Jeff Tweedy
#46. I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
Nate Silver
#47. DJs should not be just pressing play with a USB stick, or getting wasted and throwing cake. I don't think [stunts like throwing cake] have anything to do with connecting with your audience. To me, it has no substantial creative value - it's just a waste of food.
Paul Van Dyk
#49. As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
#50. Standup is a form of therapy. It is OK to tell problems to your audience as long as you are being honest and not boring them. I tell them that I am saving $75 an hour when I talk to them instead of a therapist.
Bill Engvall
#51. [Writing] books is really fun because your "voice" is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience. You will have an editor, but their job is to help you clarify or improve your voice, not change it.
Liz Tuccillo
#52. When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.
Joel Kinnaman
#53. When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.
Nicholas Lea
#54. You'll lose your audience and then where will we be? We have future gray-eyed babies to feed, you know.
Julia Quinn
#55. Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.
John Oliver
#56. If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.
Cary Fukunaga
#58. The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
Hal Sparks
#59. An audience is a community. The published word is a declaration of membership in that community and also of a willingness to contribute something meaningful to it.
So choose your audience. Write something.
Atul Gawande
#60. People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.
David E. Kelley
#61. The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.
Ashwin Sanghi
#62. The key to effective content marketing is to deeply understand and address your target audience's interests and concerns by publishing content in a variety of forms, in the channels where your audience spends time.
Jason Miller
#63. If you're a content brand, you have to be in every place your audience is. Sometimes your audience is on the couch and wants to watch a 30-minute show, and sometimes they're checking their Facebook feed and want to see something that's only a minute long.
Ricky Van Veen
#64. You must constantly persist to imprint your brand image on the mind of your audience
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#65. social media marketing will work well if you genuinely care about providing value to your audience.
M.J. Brown
#66. 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
#67. You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
Bruce Springsteen
#68. Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the song, and that means it might not be exactly thinking about the radio, but it's thinking about your audience and saying, 'I want people to like this song after it's done.'
John Legend
#69. There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.
Jorge Garcia
#70. The meaning you apply to what has happened to you is your decision. There will be critics that have their version, but God didn't call them to be your audience, someone else did.
Shannon L. Alder
#71. You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.
Brenda Ueland
#72. You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.
Scott Bakula
#73. In television, there's this weird sense of isolation from your audience; you kind of get this feeling that you write the show for you and your wife and your friends and the other people who work on the show. It's our little show, and then it goes out into the world, and somebody watches it.
Ronald D. Moore
#74. That's what acting is - it's about ... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
Kerry Washington
#75. The experience of reading a novel and watching a television show are quite different. You can't let your audience get ahead of you, and you have to keep the energy and the pace and the drama up. They're very different things.
Michelle Fairley
#76. You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.
John Medina
#78. Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
Dorothy Sarnoff
#79. If nothing else, my analysis of George W.'s oratory style had taught me that a sincere countenance and a confident stance were sufficient to distract your audience from the fact that you were talking rubbish.
Colin Cotterill
#80. It's always nice to know people are watching and having their own ideas about things and it's nice when your audience starts trying to guess what's going to happen, it means they're really interested.
Vincent Kartheiser
#81. As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
Warwick Davis
#82. Your audience are whores, oxygen farmers, two dozen pirate bands, and fifty runaway mathematicians. They would all love to see dancing and fighting.
Bruce Sterling
#83. In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
Om Puri
#84. Repeating the right message with the wrong frequency has the potential to drive your audience away.
John Arnold
#85. Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.
Tony Bennett
#86. Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.
Frederick Lenz
#87. The man who tries to be funny is lost. To lose one's naturalness is always to lose the sympathy of your audience.
Harold Lloyd
#88. You can't lie to your audience. You can't lie to your fans.
Nikki Sixx
#89. You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.
Dwayne Johnson
#90. The way you survive in the performing arts is by having a sense of your audience, and doing things which entertain and satisfy the audience, but in a more important way, cause the audience to question many things.
Michael Tilson Thomas
#91. All Internet comedy is niche comedy. If you do an Internet video about Halo, every Halo fan will send it to every other Halo fan. But if you did an episode of a network comedy that parodied Halo, most of your audience wouldn't even get it.
Ricky Van Veen
#92. In general, I think audiences are a lot smarter than people think. So, it's not "know your audience", it's "respect your audience, and really know your content".
Edward Tufte
#93. There's the false security of feeling a great force of love from your audience one day and then the next morning you wake up and you're exhausted, and that love is something you have to reach for the next day.
Lisa Gerrard
#94. 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
#95. There were a few things that went into it. When you're doing something you're trying to be your audience at the same time, so if somebody tells me that this is a movie about retired opera singers, you think 'maybe I'll wait for it to come to DVD'. You're not rushing off to see it.
Dustin Hoffman
#96. As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.
Michelle Yeoh
#97. You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!
Paullina Simons
#98. Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.
Gary Owens
#99. I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.
Glenn Frey
#100. If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
Peter Maxwell Davies
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