Audience Quotes · Page 52

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

— Artie Shaw

I'm the middle-class kid; it doesn't sound exciting, but a lot of my audience is middle-class kids.

— Billy Squier

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

— Karel Reisz

My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write.

— Will Hobbs

There's really no way of ever knowing how the audience is going to respond to any episode or change.

— Stephen Nathan

Who can deny that it was a pleasure to watch Rob Van Dam interact with the audience and tear the house down…

— Paul Heyman

If my films do well or not, I am glad that the audiences appreciate my performance.

— Hrithik Roshan

If you start censoring what you're interested in for the audience, you don't give the audience enough credit.

— Hilary Hahn

Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and…

— Jason Reitman

If you look at the statistics, I genuinely understand why when we go to a production company or a broadcaster, and they…

— Joivan Wade

The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then…

— Bruno Heller

It was because of the success of the Super Soaker, I was able to at least get an audience with people to…

— Lonnie Johnson

I'd like to think my performance is today. I never try to - it's so, as you know, watching me, I have…

— Don Rickles

Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you…

— J. J. Abrams

As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be…

— Dolph Lundgren

In America, I get a lot of younger kids, but there's teens and adults too, ... In Europe, for some reason, I…

— Avril Lavigne

Everything has become so pop-rock oriented that finding a role for a soprano, and finding an audience for a soprano, is tricky.…

— Laura Benanti

There are so many burning issues to be dealt with that it's completely understandable and natural that a character is struggling with…

— Colm Meaney

I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's…

— Tom Freston

Those of us who make films try to make something that we're feeling and that we would like. Then we just hope…

— Jim Jarmusch

People have reacted to the length of "Aquarius" in very positive ways. For example, at the beginning, you have people in a…

— Sonia Braga

The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment…

— David Foster Wallace

Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love…

— Ethan Hawke

Music will always have an audience, no matter how many artists there are.

— Jonita Gandhi

I've really enjoyed working with Brody King and PCO, and offering a different side of 'The Villain' to the audience.

— Marty Scurll

I can't bear it when young actors do too much finger-wagging. It spoils the audience's concentration.

— Prunella Scales

When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.

— Adam Lambert

It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.

— Brian Austin Green

The audiences have a certain perspective of every heroine and one should not go against it.

— Navya Nair

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

— Craig Ferguson

I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

— Nas

But although I appreciate our audience, we don't do things for them. It's all for us - we play really self-indulgent music.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.

— Laura Benanti

'Article 15' is an investigative drama where the audience too is an accused party.

— Anubhav Sinha

“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.”

— Calvin Niles

The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

— Phil Crosby

You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than…

— Jeremy Brett

I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

— Patrick Wilson

I don't just want to be associated with a few good 3D movies and the audience is saying all of the other…

— James Cameron