Audience Quotes · Page 111

All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage

— Neil Peart

I still want to get some empathy from the audience, even though she's pathetic.

— Laura Vandervoort

The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.

— Oscar Isaac

I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has.

— Jonathan Levine

I enjoy having a large audience, but I don't do anything special to attract them.

— Julian Bream

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

— Walter Savage Landor

TV has the most reach among the audience. Movies are watched only by those who like cinema.

— Mohanlal

I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.

— Steven Spielberg

To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of…

— Nelson Rodrigues

I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look…

— Taylor Swift

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about…

— Mike Figgis

When I first went on the 'Johnny Carson show', the band did not want me, and Carson did not want me. If…

— Tiny Tim

I am not a "Christian author." I am an author who is a Christian. While my books reflect my faith, they are…

— Andy Andrews

My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's…

— Mike Birbiglia

I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking…

— Kurt Masur

The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and…

— Angela Lansbury

Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for…

— Leonard Rose

Effective communication is fascinating to me yet bad communication is just as fascinating. There are lessons to be learned from both. I…

— Nancy Duarte

I don't write about sex because it's not really my subject. I love it when other people write about it, but it's…

— David Sedaris

Unlike someone like Tom Hanks, or U2, the comics industry is not a thriving industry and we all need to keep and…

— John Rozum

Even during the promotion I told people that I didn't like Rush Hour. The jokes I didn't understand and the fighting, compared…

— Jackie Chan

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that…

— Lena Dunham

I have become a giant fan of the testing process, especially with a comedy. I mean, they tell you what's funny. It's…

— Seth Rogen

[Buckminster Fuller] started talking about it far enough afterwards, an audience that was far enough from when they - when the air…

— Jonathon Keats

A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them.

— Torrey Peters

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

— David Heyman

We never made music to fit into anything or to reach a certain audience.

— Bill Ward

Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.

— Michael Shermer

It's better to play to the host as though in a real conversation and let the audience listen in- which they are.

— Franklyn Ajaye

Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.

— Callie Khouri

The audience in Kerala have been giving a good response to my films, including 'Paiyaa' and 'Siruthai.'

— Karthi

The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

— Alan Rickman

What some of the early horror genre masters knew, and what I know, is that the audience are perverts, but in the…

— Fede Alvarez

That is why we slave away in the studio for years and years and years, to bring something that an audience can…

— Chappell Roan

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

— Dan Harmon

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

— Adrian Mitchell

One of the most wonderful things for me is to watch somebody else perform, where I am the audience - I love…

— Marina Abramovic

I think no composer knows he's creating a hit until the audience gives it a nod.

— Amaal Mallik

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

— J. K. Rowling

It's much more fun to talk to an audience that includes a lot of people who disagree with me.

— Charles Murray