Audience Quotes

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words.

The family of God is the choir, and God is their audience.

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

If something comes from your heart, it will reach the heart of your audience.

I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of.

There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use.

It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.

My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

When the audience isn't laughing, that doesn't mean that they're not fascinated.

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people.

There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.