Audience Quotes · Page 51

Country seems to be finding a bigger audience. Certainly an audience out of the general country scene is finding me.

— Keith Urban

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

— Marlon Brando

I'm incredibly proud of the show 'Portlandia' that I do, but it's designed for an audience that just wants that and loves…

— Lorne Michaels

Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.

— Richard Strauss

I'm really not a fan of letting the audience live vicariously through stuff.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

Voice work is the best - no need to dress up, no audience, no pressure, nobody's judging you.

— Kym Whitley

The audience does not want to watch the same show for three years or more.

— Hiten Tejwani

You can't control the audience. When you're on the air and they're not coming to the party, it's time to shut down…

— Adam Baldwin

Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the…

— Robert Warshow

Of course, it's a great joy to be able to perform. And that love affair with an audience, where you give love…

— Barry Crocker

I think more obvious to others, is that I'm most vulnerable on stage. Even though I know which songs I'm going to…

— Jason Mraz

A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the…

— Kelly Jones

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one…

— Louis L'Amour

I was a vegetarian when we shot the first film(Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle), and I generally eat organic as…

— Kal Penn

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the…

— Katherine Paterson

Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to…

— Jay Cassidy

What happens is people - especially, I think, audiences in the United States - people confront new things a little bit afraid.…

— Paula Scher

In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who…

— Sam Claflin

Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation,…

— Brian Eno

You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience.…

— Hayao Miyazaki

I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an…

— Taran Killam

I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only…

— Ian Mckellen

... Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll…

— Brad Paisley

The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes,…

— Raymond Chandler

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

— Guy Pearce

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

— Brit Marling

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

— Katherine Moennig

Personally, as a filmmaker, I think you should prepare your audience as to what they can expect.

— Sudeep

I make dramedies, but 'Tangerine' really has a lot of comedy, and I saw that it had a great effect - it…

— Sean Baker

Many people consider darts a sport, with a live audience and very excited fans and competitors who aren't hitting the bull's-eye.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I always give the audience a variety because I want to make sure they hear the favorites and all that.

— Vonda Shepard

I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It's the same cynicism that [Strange]…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I am an artist. An actor performs, whether it's in front of the camera or a live audience.

— Puneet Issar

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by…

— Eddie Marsan

Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.

— Chet Faker

The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on…

— Robert Fripp

The problem with individual opinion is that it doesn't necessary correlate with what the mass audience is thinking.

— Jed Mercurio

I live in my own bubble. I was looking for an audience that wouldn't necessarily be looking for escapism when they came…

— Art Spiegelman

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

— Ben Vereen

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

— Walter Jon Williams