Audience Quotes

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

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

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.

[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.

The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two days, the critics notice, and after three days, so does the audience.

People wrestle alligators but not once has someone done it without an audience.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.

In the attention economy, anyone trying to connect with an audience must treat the user's time as the ultimate resource.

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.

Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?

An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to pay me to do, I'm happy to do it!

I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

I think the audience likes to be entertained.

In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One.

Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.

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).

I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

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

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.