Audience Quotes · Page 58

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

— Joan Didion

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

— Marsha Norman

The audience determines whether they still want to watch you or not.

— Akshaye Khanna

Selling an idea to a publisher is not as valuable as selling your audience to a publisher.

— Sarah Cooper

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

— Charlton Heston

Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.

— Gene Wilder

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

— Charley Reese

I was taught at my drama school that it's not what you feel, it's what you make the audience feel.

— June Brown

Most horror films are made very cynically, and they're usually made by studios for an audience that they know is there, no…

— Ari Aster

You can have a good vibe and a good feeling about something, but you never really know how it's going to be…

— Aidan Turner

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience…

— William Monahan

It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the…

— Helen Oyeyemi

When I smile at the audience, I'm not smiling because I was told that you're supposed to smile to the audience. I…

— John Frusciante

I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see…

— Jerry Saltz

I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.

— Amanda Palmer

It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched…

— Gil Gerard

With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that…

— Michael Patrick King

Very rarely I create things and feel like I don't want to recreate them in a live setting. It's a completely different…

— Frank Iero

Trump has his own audience, which is in many cases as big as or bigger than the media covering him. He doesn't…

— Rush Limbaugh

The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is…

— Abhishek Bachchan

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for…

— Bertolt Brecht

I'm maybe not so anxious to be a successful pop artist. Of course I want people to like my music, but I…

— Robyn

People build fame because they're pretty sometimes.Most of the time. This is what the audience wants, apparently. I don't necessarily agree, but…

— Emmanuel Benbihy

I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something…

— Wes Anderson

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

— Mary Renault

I want audiences to look at adolescent delinquents with greater understanding and more compassion.

— Emmanuelle Bercot

Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience.

— Haris Pasovic

In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.

— Randal Kleiser

“Every talent has an audience waiting to be inspired and entertained.”

— Lakaii

I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to…

— Todd Solondz

Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from…

— Spike Jonze

We're expanding 'Ebony' and 'Jet' on the digital side to attract and maintain a younger audience.

— Linda Johnson Rice

I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn't matter.

— Bipasha Basu

My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

— Cab Calloway

You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as…

— Donnie Wahlberg

Songs like "Spirit Carries On" really gets the audience moved and on the same page. It's challenging and all so much fun…

— John Petrucci

The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night.

— Elizabeth Marvel

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

— Ingrid Bergman

Today is tax day. A lot of people are hoping they get refunds. And that's just the folks here in the audience.

— David Letterman

If the audience never understands the plot, it can be counted on to be attentive to the very end.

— Benedetto Marcello