Welcome Audience Quotes

#1. To me, humor is part of a conversation with an audience.

Scott Avett

#2. Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

David Oyelowo

#3. Of course, from one point of view the unhappy events of our own century might be regarded as, say, demonstration ballets on the theme 'Hydrocarbon Synthesis' with strong audience participation.

J.G. Ballard

#4. I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their duty to please me, but at the same time, I think a lot about what it's like through the eyes of the consumer, the fan. I want not to pander to the audience, but to be aware of them.

Trent Reznor

#5. I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.

David Robinson

#6. I am wary of sequels. I understand them from the studio's point of view, but the audience doesn't want more, they want better, and I thought the second 'Ghostbusters' was not very effective, it did not really work, so there's no reason to believe a third would. I'm more interested in new things.

Rick Moranis

#7. The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.

Randy Falco

#8. I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better.

Christine Jones

#9. 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

#10. Had I just begged for an audience with Death?

Rachel Vincent

#11. If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. The illusion of depth in a character is created simply by withholding information from an audience. A character will seem complex and intriguing only if we don't know the reasons why.

Eleanor Catton

#13. If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.

Mark Russell

#14. When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

Rudolf Nureyev

#15. I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.

Steven Spielberg

#16. It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

Norman Lear

#17. Welcome to the 'Age of Influence,' where anyone can build an audience and effect change, advocate brands, build relationships and make a difference.

Ted Rubin

#18. The thing about me is that I don't judge my audience. I welcome. It is a big tent.

Willie Geist

#19. Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and 'Arcadia' is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience - you can really squeeze every last drop out of each scene.

Tom Riley

#20. Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

Gore Vidal

#21. I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

Lou Reed

#22. Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances

Diana Wynne Jones

#23. When we approached the project, the very first thing we did was take each character and say, "Okay, where would this character be?" We didn't want them to be caricatures of themselves. We wanted them to live and breathe, and grow with the audience and with us.

Jon Hurwitz

#24. There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.

Michael Stipe

#25. I prefer not to wink out from behind the character as myself, saying to the audience, "It's just me here, right, guys?" Peter Sellers is my model, and he didn't do that - he wore his character from head to toe.

Andy Daly

#26. When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading of the script is so important because you're experiencing it all for the first time, and it's then that you really know if it's going to work or not.

David Tennant

#27. The audience wants control. They want freedom.

Kevin Spacey

#28. The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.

Sanjay Dutt

#29. I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

Dick Cavett

#30. When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

Laura Donnelly

#31. It's always more interesting to make a movie about what is relevant in your society. What's the political global backdrop? What are our threats? What are we vulnerable to? Because that's what an audience vibes on - that is what people are interested in, universally.

Gerard Butler

#32. I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.

Natalie Merchant

#33. Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage

David Lee Roth

#34. The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#35. It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audience's role in it will be.

Edwin Schlossberg

#36. What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

Shia Labeouf