Tough Audience Quotes

#1. The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a tough audience to surprise, and a tough audience to write for. It's much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more - I want to say 'sophisticated.'

Betty White

#2. I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

Robin Williams

#3. Don't fight change; appreciate change.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Folks who go through the tabloids ought to have to be lied to.

Jerry Seinfeld

#5. 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

#6. As a comedian, I'm forced to have a tough skin. Until people laugh, they are detractors. You walk into a new audience where nobody knows you, they go: 'Make us laugh. Show us what you're made of. Prove why we should be listening to you.'

Trevor Noah

#7. It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

Walter Jon Williams

#8. Grab a big straw and suck it up.

Shawn Garrett

#9. Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.

Callie Khouri

#10. I looked right into the face of pure evil. And the worst part is, it wasn't the enemy.

Jana Deleon

#11. I was still tough but it wasn't the same. I had to withdraw. I watched people from afar, it was like a stage play. Only they were on stage and I was an audience of one.

Charles Bukowski

#12. My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

Dean Koontz

#13. There's no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don't get them right away it's tough winning them back even if you're doing top-notch material. If you didn't win them right when you walked out there, it's tough.

Hannibal Buress

#14. Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to be boring, and then being a little funny, is much easier. I prefer easier.

Barney Frank

#15. I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

Eartha Kitt

#16. It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer [the eucharist], nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function- not to mention any priestly office.

Tertullian

#17. I've always been down to try out new things, but I was more of a jeans girl at age 17. I didn't want to show my legs. Now, I'm a dress-shirt girl, a shorts girl, a jeans girl, an overalls girl - I'll wear anything!

Kristinia DeBarge