Audience Quotes · Page 32

I've learnt that you've got to accept the audience you've got.

— Gyles Brandreth

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

— Richard Thompson

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

— Jack Wild

Before we play a show, we pray for the audience.

— Lacey Sturm

I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.

— Moby

Being discovered by an audience is an incredibly difficult thing.

— Kevin Jonas

The audience can feel the subtleties of the characters.

— Robert Downey, Jr

When we play to an audience, I never would use dirty lyrics.

— Fats Domino

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

— Christopher Walken

Fortunately, I got critic and audience acceptance much earlier than industry acceptance.

— Abhay Deol

Nobody knows the pulse of the audience. By the grace of God, things are working for me.

— Prabhu Deva

It's so much harder to make a living off improv. Improv is so rarified and for such a specific audience.

— Kurt Braunohler

I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned…

— Joe Strummer

When you're playing to an audience that isn't your own, it's quite scary.

— Gabrielle Aplin

I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the…

— David Bryan

It is a feel-good factor when you get an instant reaction from the audience.

— Zeenat Aman

You want to go to a place where you work every day, where you get to tell stories that look and feel…

— Greg Berlanti

Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are…

— Edgar Degas

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity…

— Michael Haneke

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere…

— Anurag Kashyap

The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working…

— Eric Maisel

I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from…

— Keith Richards

Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do…

— Stephen Moyer

The audience and I are friends. They allowed me to grow up with them. I've let them down several times. They've let…

— Mickey Rooney

I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for…

— Sydney Pollack

Alan: "I had terrible stage fright." Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'" A: "It's pretty awful. You end…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I…

— Harold Prince

If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain…

— Fede Alvarez

When you look at the current state of reality TV, at least on the mainstream level, the shows that tend to be…

— Dan Cutforth

The commercial theatre may still be considered one of New York's primary tourist attractions, but . . . there is no longer…

— Robert Brustein

A lot of my colleagues just don't really realize that they have to work in order to get the interest of an…

— David Garrett

My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

— Don Van Vliet

I try to tailor a talk to the audience.

— Jack Swigert

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

— Kevin Spacey

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

— Dave Van Ronk

If you're not being inspired by your research, your audience won't be inspired by your work

— Anonymous

I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.

— Laurie Anderson

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

— William Safire

I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

— John Lithgow