Audience Quotes · Page 100

Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.

— Alan Ayckbourn

I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the…

— Glenn Frey

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

— Gore Vidal

People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'

— Marian Seldes

“I think most of us would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich we would be…

— John Green

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

— Fiona Shaw

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what…

— Tod Goldberg

I look down and see little kids in the audience and I'm like, "Oh man, I hope I'm not poisoning these kids!"

— DJ Quik

Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no…

— Doc Severinsen

It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed…

— David Walliams

I would love to see more dialogue around the "responsibilities" of art consumers - how can audiences better financially support artists we…

— Vivek Shraya

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you…

— Lester Bowie

I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry…

— Diane Paulus

“It was curious to me then, as now, the power of the performer over an audience when, in fact, the gift itself…

— Kate Mulgrew

It's lovely when you get those awards because it reminds you that the audience are enjoying what you're doing so you keep…

— Declan Donnelly

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's…

— Elayne Boosler

Improvisation in general is good, and improvising material into themes, turning the material into something codified and repeatable, taught me scenic structure…

— Stephen Colbert

It's always been a lot of fun for me, just to be in films that people see and they connect to, big…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

If the audience lets that stuff wash over them, you know - almost like music, rather than dialogue - and doesn't fight…

— David Cronenberg

I have a basic theorem as to how I do my jokes. Growing up, I knew when to cross the line and…

— Larry the Cable Guy

I do not choose my listeners. What I mean is, I never write for my listeners. I think about my audience, but…

— Henryk Gorecki

... Michael Bloomfields' musical understanding was broad and deep, and he knew how to turn that understanding into communication .. his influence…

— Mark Naftalin

I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of…

— Kathleen Hanna

This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not…

— Linda Ronstadt

There is nothing better than getting something in front of an audience in a less stressful setting than previews!

— Michael Patrick Walker

I'm a frail-looking wheelchair-using standup, and the audience are stunned when I take the mic.

— Liz Carr

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

— Simon McBurney

“Who is your audience; who are you speaking to? This is one of the most important aspects of oratory. Your”

— Virender Kapoor

I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white…

— G-Eazy

Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.

— Wayne White

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.

— Natalie Portman

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

— Joshua Leonard

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

— Anthony Quinn

To be honest, I don't try to speak and target who my 'audience' is. I just do my thing.

— Pedro Capo

When you focus on delighting an audience you care about, you strip the masses of their power.

— Seth

I've always been interested in giving the audience a first-person experience in my movies.

— Doug Liman

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

— Om Puri

I am not after any award. Love and affection of the audience is the biggest award for me.

— Mukesh Tiwari

DREAM PREDICTION ELITE is the realization of true amazement in your audiences reactions. This is PURE GOLD - A REAL WINNER

— Banachek

True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.

— Lewis Hyde