Audience Quotes · Page 42

With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.

— Rik Mayall

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

— Mo Willems

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of…

— Kate Smith

We love bringing verisimilitude to audiences, hopefully having experiences you'll never have.

— Scott Derrickson

I feel you lose your audience when you make movies for others and not for yourself or your people.

— Vetrimaaran

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

— Michael Eric Dyson

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

— Roland Joffe

I do an improv show on Sunday where we have a class, and then afterwards we go and do a live performance…

— Nolan Gould

I'm very lucky to be on 'Melissa and Joey' because it's a multi-cam sitcom, and it was a nice transition from theatre…

— Nick Robinson

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in…

— C. Everett Koop

A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell…

— Isaac Stern

I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance…

— Deborah Cox

I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just…

— Paul Weller

It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you…

— Jim Dale

The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when…

— Laura Mullen

To perform live, to get that thrill of the audience reaction is great. There is no equivalent of watching someone stand up…

— Randy Rainbow

In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from…

— Ed Murray

I love telling stories. When people interview me live I'm totally forthcoming about stories like that - as long as it's not…

— Debra Winger

Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest…

— Ang Lee

I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western…

— Anonymous

It doesn't matter if you have the greatest product in the world if no one will buy it. Have an idea of…

— Cameron Johnson

Scientists blame the audience for being too stupid, shallow, or lazy to understand. There has been a fascinating debate in the blogosphere…

— Mark Powell

When you're actually talking over someone, it's as if you're just pontificating and they're not even there. And their body language -…

— Mark Goulston

To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my…

— Joan Baez

I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like.

— Tim Curry

But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.

— Mose Allison

The only pressure on me is that I should never disappoint my audience.

— Sajid Khan

I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.

— Steven Spielberg

I always wanted to reach pan-India audience, and 'Avane' is my first step towards it.

— Rakshit Shetty

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.

— Kevin Spacey

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

— James Blunt

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

— Manuel Puig

If a hit song comes on in a theater, the mass audience get so excited they throw money, just out of excitement.

— Bhushan Kumar

I love audiences. They are my oxygen. I only breathe with audience. When I'm alone, I am normally a miserable you-know-what.

— Charo

Live audiences love me because I'm singing and actually am able to f**k with people live over the mic.

— Willam Belli

The way I see it, before I can sell an audience Frank Sr, I have to sell them Frank Jr first.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the…

— Martha Graham

I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.

— Miranda Lambert

Any musician will tell you they have played for free just because they wanted an audience and a chance to play.

— Johnny Paycheck

Going on the road and having love from the audience is something that you'll never be able to buy.

— Adore Delano