Audience Quotes · Page 17

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

— Douglas Dunn

Sometimes you get an audience that's looking to just explode.

— Anonymous

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

— Bobby McFerrin

There's an audience for everything.

— Davy Jones

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

— Henry Rollins

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.

— Joe Cocker

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I've seen my audience grow over the years, which is good.

— Shobana

You need something that no one else is using. And something that is clean enough to play around audiences.

— Curtis Granderson

I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.

— Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.

— Joe Perry

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

— Jackie Chan

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

— Peter O'Toole

Audience will get bored if just one kind of films will continue to get made.

— Divya Dutta

I sometimes close my eyes during a show because I have drawn a picture of an audience enjoying the show more on…

— Mitch Hedberg

Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling.

— Tori Spelling

If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you…

— Van Morrison

When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants…

— Michael Richards

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the…

— Roger Rosenblatt

I'm a regular part of the TV audience world, and I know that I like shows that I would watch. And this…

— Joe Flanigan

I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in…

— Sheridan Smith

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with…

— John Sebastian

I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched…

— Bonnie Raitt

I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't…

— Terry Gilliam

There are people who try to figure things out. Often, magic is presented in a way that sets up a challenge that…

— Ricky Jay

Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies…

— Ira Sachs

Normally classical music is set up so you have professionals on a stage and a bunch of audience - it's us versus…

— David Lang

Anyone can do shock value. Develop enough tension and cue the music right, then have something jump out: It's almost impossible not…

— Daniel Myrick

I'm neurotic in the sense that I can have a crowd of 300 people cheering you, applauding you, standing O, but one…

— Wayne White

I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcoms—it had nothing to do with the color of them—I just didn't…

— Bill Cosby

If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the…

— Frank Capra

President Reagan was a master communicator. In this particular speech he did a brilliant job moving between the stately role of U.S.…

— Nancy Duarte

There are many good ideas out there that never get an audience.

— Steve Jurvetson

There is no bigger certificate than audience appreciation.

— Mohan Joshi

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

— Jean-Louis Barrault

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

— Anonymous

“it’s really great to be back in front of an audience again.”

— James Patterson

You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.

— Louis C. K

It's not really a good sign when your audience applauds Satan.

— Jon Stewart

When the fans spend money, you normally leave the audience happy.

— Scott Hall