Audience Quotes · Page 57

Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.

— Ashley Madekwe

When you're being mean to someone, you can feel the audience just get cold.

— Fred Armisen

When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.

— Sade Adu

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

— Patti LuPone

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

— Robert Rodriguez

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by…

— Mark Twain

I'm not very comfortable about the audience getting a peek into my personal life. I like to keep my personal space.

— Karishma Tanna

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

— Julianne Moore

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five…

— Bob Newhart

One of the greatest tools you have as a songwriter is anonymity. If someone knows too much about the songwriter, they don't…

— Shane McAnally

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to…

— Cate Blanchett

I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been…

— Tavis Smiley

I figured the songs wouldn't make much of a splash. I didn't think 'Take Me To Church' would play on the radio…

— Hozier

Theatre is a living organism. You only know if your show is working when you see it with an audience. You can…

— John Tiffany

I still perform live primarily. I just keep traveling and doing live shows. The main difference in film, you know in your…

— Debbie Reynolds

I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we…

— Christopher Nolan

I feel like you have to earn something with an audience. If I just did it now, I think producers on any…

— Robert Pattinson

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV…

— David Krumholtz

Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this…

— Joel Edgerton

I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical…

— Albert Goldbarth

I can ask someone to let me into all aspects of their life for several years, but people have got to have…

— Lucy Walker

My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand…

— Arthur Miller

When we were making it [Star Wars], none of the effects were in. So the first time, I thought it was, you…

— Harrison Ford

I grew up on M*A*S*H and All In The Family and Cheers. And then around this time, this would have been '95,…

— Eric McCormack

The toughest challenge for any actor is to get accepted and loved by the audience.

— Varun Sharma

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

— John Cale

We write stories that we like and hope the kids like them, too. But we definitely make sure that they skew toward…

— Butch Hartman

“Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think in order to find your audience and let them get to know you, you have to introduce yourself a little…

— Lari White

I never want to be winking at the audience and saying, "This character is really a nice guy."

— Vik Sahay

When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.

— Wyclef Jean

We're committed to giving the independent artists we support the best stage to share their mind-blowing work with audiences.

— Jane Rosenthal

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can…

— Chris Hardwick

[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here.

— Billy Connolly

Films are made for audience's appreciation but films are also made for artistic satisfaction.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

“A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.”

— Rebecca Solnit

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

— Frank Auerbach

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

— Brian May

I pray that I keep entertaining the audience with various roles and characters.

— Sunil Grover

Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.

— Bob Lefsetz