Audience Quotes · Page 59

America has always been my biggest audience, so I'm putting a lot of faith in America.

— Boy George

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

— Bill Hicks

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

— Theodore Bikel

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

— Sylvester Stallone

There's a tremendous audience out there for popular music. It's a bigger audience than for movies.

— Robert Kardashian

If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.

— Michael Sheen

People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

— Peter Morgan

Being an entertainer includes knowing how to connect with an audience.

— Joe Nichols

My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest…

— Steven Weber

If I wouldn't offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are…

— Tim Conway

I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy…

— Steve Earle

I've got the knowledge and experience to know what's going on in the cage or the ring. And I know how to…

— Alberto Del Rio

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front…

— Brooke Burke

What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.

— Rainn Wilson

I always wish for the audience to feel less lonely when they leave the room. To have the film as a companion,…

— Celine Sciamma

I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they…

— Carlene Carter

I always think it's better to take your time and go through a lot of ideas - and dismiss a lot of…

— Shawn Ryan

When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to…

— Robert McKee

They're very sociable occasions and there's no barriers between us and the audience. It's customary that after our performances, we go out…

— Ric Sanders

Some acts of worldbuilding in fiction instantiate a milieu that is so culturally odd and exotic, so displaced from the audience's consensus…

— Paul Di Filippo

I'm almost mentally incapable of drawing a distinction between art I make for the masses, or my clients, and that I make…

— Clayton James Cubitt

There shouldn't be a death in the ring. There should never have been deaths in the ring, because people - deaths in…

— Ferdie Pacheco

America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from…

— Woodrow Wilson

My [singing] style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes…

— Judy Garland

I want to thank the audience of both the Telugu speaking states for standing by me throughout my journey.

— Allu Arjun

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

— Oscar Isaac

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

— William Landay

I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience's imagination.

— Sam Levinson

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

— David Copperfield

I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it's getting.

— Barry Levinson

I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

— Ian Mckellen

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond…a good feeling about…

— Robert Pinsky

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

— Zhang Yimou

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

— Edward Hall

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are…

— Dick Wolf

There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.

— George Carlin

If you can make an audience laugh, you can make them love any character.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.

— Jennifer Damiano

You can't abandon an audience you created, because people will find someone else.

— Raheem DeVaughn

If the audience can connect with you, then you've done something that lasts. I think that's what any good art is.

— John Popper