Audience Quotes · Page 104

If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.

— Cary Fukunaga

I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.

— Bob Hope

The films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience's misconceptions.

— Josephine Decker

There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.

— Steve Martin

I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.

— Stephen Colbert

We feel it's really interesting to see how our music translates to such a broad audience.

— Suzuka Nakamoto

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

— Tom Waits

When I began acting, my biggest fear was whether the audience will appreciate the kind of films I do.

— Fahadh Faasil

Even if you are a superstar, you have to give your audience some content. Because there is so much good content out…

— Kanika Dhillon

I think maybe I might tackle something that doesn't reach down to a very, very young audience, like more of a kind…

— Joe Wright

I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of…

— Giancarlo Esposito

So the audience, at times, lets us know actually what is so special about the show that we can't even necessarily design…

— Steve Zissis

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through…

— Leila Josefowicz

In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave…

— Mandy Patinkin

There's a joy in having the molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people…

— Mike Myers

I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to…

— Steve Antin

Eric's performance is an awesome and entirely honest expression of the pain and beauty of his music. To watch him play is…

— Tea Leoni

People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely…

— Neil Postman

I can understand why rock stars are rock stars and why they play in front of people because the buzz that you…

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform…

— Marina Abramovic

Rap has so many possibilities that need to be explored. There are different factions of rap, but some are in a rut.…

— Michael Franti

'Full House' was the first time I had ever been in front of a live audience. I said a line I had…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

I worked on it [ Too Much Tuna] for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience. I couldn't believe…

— Alex Timbers

A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't…

— Peter Riegert

This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.

— James Berardinelli

“He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.”

— Richard Ford

“You can't tell the audience — well, you can, but I don't like to tell the audience — that anything they're watching doesn't matter.”

— Dan Harmon

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

— Dana Spiotta

It does not bother me whether my work is reaching the audience through cinema, TV or a web series.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.

— Ang Lee

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

— George Szell

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

— Dale Carnegie

I look for good scripts, not anything. It should inspire me, and the audience should like it.

— Anushka Shetty

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

— Harold Prince

The greatest feeling in the world is performing and connecting with the audience.

— Steve Lukather

An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make…

— Eric Maisel

When you do something in the moment, it may just be for that stage, that audience, that head space that you're in.

— Richard Lewis

Producers are too ready to second-guess an audience, and they always play it very safe.

— Adrian Lester

Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.

— Katharine Cornell

I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.

— Tom Sizemore