Audience Quotes · Page 14

You just never know how an audience is going to react.

— Michael McElhatton

I work hard to make a gift to the audience.

— Sylvie Guillem

You've got to write for your audience.

— John Ratzenberger

Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.

— Kevin Spacey

I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.

— Melinda Clarke

The broader your audience, the more people you have to appeal to.

— Anne Heche

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is... trapped.

— Jerry Seinfeld

I was playing catch with the European audience.

— Charles Olson

There are obviously people who want to be very niche, but I think for the most part everybody is trying to reach…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

— Stephen Stills

I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.

— Paul Scheuring

I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

— Yann Tiersen

Most of my movies have been concept based and aimed at a certain audience, but I always wanted to do a film…

— Vishnu Vishal

I love characters who can rile an audience so much - it means you've done your job well.

— Jodie Comer

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

— Maurice Saatchi

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

— Wally Lamb

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought…

— Poppy Z. Brite

I'm a big fan of not letting the audience of off the hook, as they say. I like it when things feel…

— John C. Reilly

The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's…

— Bruce Springsteen

“Then she turns toward the audience, and my breathe catches. Even here, twelve rows away, I can tell she’s the most beautiful…

— Laurelin Paige

When we approached the project, the very first thing we did was take each character and say, "Okay, where would this character…

— Jon Hurwitz

I try not to put pressure on filmmakers to come up with a big scare at the beginning. I think that helps…

— Jason Blum

Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would…

— Bo Bennett

I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience - at least a…

— Billie Jean King

I am moving towards that zone where I don't want to be a replaceable name. This is my goal. I want to…

— Taapsee Pannu

I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a…

— Suzan-Lori Parks

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I…

— Ani DiFranco

People don't like the music that's out now, that's on their radio stations, and they want to hear something different, but they're…

— Mos Def

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a…

— Jeremy Renner

What makes 'Hoop Dreams' such a powerful film, is that it carries a message that maybe we can do something about our…

— Gordon Quinn

I definitely prefer the single camera better. For me it's the simple fact that I enjoy working in front of an audience,…

— Jonathan Groff

Hedda Hopper was a better direct opponent to [Dalton] Trumbo. We wanted to use Trumbo's battles to represent the larger battles, so…

— Jay Roach

In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.

— Hayao Miyazaki

My audience is like my family at this point.

— Colleen Ballinger

I took a break so that I can entertain my audience properly.

— R. Madhavan

If I played a vamp I would be rejected by the audience outright.

— Sharmila Tagore

It was like an audience with the Pope.

— Ricky Gervais

I think we should all have a private audience with Helen Mirren.

— Claire Foy

Potential audiences are real people found in real places.

— Suzanne Lacy

The audience is making the film and not the film-maker.

— Woody Allen