Audience Quotes · Page 46

You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

— Howard Thurston

I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

— Ralph Richardson

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

— Eric Hoffer

I can't dumb down for the audience because I believe my audience is at least as smart as I am.

— Ranvir Shorey

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.

— Greg Kinnear

We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.

— Edward Tufte

I dont know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. Its more than talent and beauty. Maybe its the audience…

— Joan Blondell

My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to…

— Arthur Rubinstein

Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour…

— Maggie Q

The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the…

— J. J. Abrams

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those…

— Philip Kaufman

I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their…

— Saffron Burrows

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of…

— Edward Norton

When I was younger, I wanted to own a circus and create this bizarre revue that went from town to town. And,…

— Neil Burger

But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question…

— Derrick Jensen

For me, social media is a one-way deal. It's like all the traffic goes one direction and I don't care how many…

— John Rzeznik

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

No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live.…

— Darren Criss

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

— Sydney Pollack

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 ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

— Bertolt Brecht

Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience.

— Hilary Rosen

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

— Robert Brustein

Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

— Keith Johnstone

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

— Theodore Bikel

The people you learn most from are the audiences, which is why I'm always best on my last night.

— Prunella Scales

I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

— Donnie Iris

Each night is a different audience so I've got to be top each night.

— Bugzy Malone

I really just want an audience that is willing to let me live my life and share with them what I get…

— Lizz Wright

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

— Christopher Reeve

I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.

— Bo Burnham

I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.

— Dario Argento

Never underestimate the effect you can have on certain sections of the audience, though. You should see some of the letters I…

— John Nettles

I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine…

— Colin Quinn

Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.

— Amitabh Bachchan