Audience Quotes · Page 65

The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers

— David Platt

For me, my first hearing of the script matters. It has to excite me as an actor and as an audience.

— Kriti Sanon

Once I threw a water bottle from the stage into the audience, and it hit Tony Bennett in the head. It was…

— Marilyn Manson

I think 'Shameless' is more of an everyman's show, whereas as great as I think 'Girls' is, it's got a smaller audience.

— Jeremy Allen White

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

— John Kao

We've played in places where there were more of us onstage than in the audience.

— Bryce Dessner

It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!

— Kevin Nealon

I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets,…

— Tom Riley

I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to…

— Robyn Hitchcock

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave…

— Arthur Miller

I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by…

— Pete Townshend

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a…

— Melissa Rosenberg

The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the…

— Scott Kahn

I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the…

— Eartha Kitt

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic…

— Doug Hutchison

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and…

— Peter Higgs

However, I think that sometimes when shows do, you know, have a good season or a bad season, it comes down to…

— Dan Cutforth

The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Whatever I have is because of the people who are watching me. I don't have a PR agency, I don't have a…

— Vikrant Massey

There's a tacit agreement between myself and the audience that I will entertain them when they buy their ticket, and I've been…

— Woody Allen

The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes.…

— Lee Hall

Restoration is to some extent part of the digital age. These days, if you re-issue a movie in theaters or on Blu-ray,…

— Jerome Seydoux

I can't stand those people, speakers in a room, they say this all the time, "If I can just help one person…

— Simon Sinek

I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a…

— Bernard Herrmann

One fear setting on filmmakers is that the audience no longer has any patience. They want things to constantly move.

— Farhan Akhtar

Compared with what's happening in, say, Darfur or South Ossetia, finding an audience for your comedy show is not that significant.

— Paul Whitehouse

I think American audiences like gangster movies. It's part of the culture.

— Vincent Cassel

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

— Lucille Ball

I have enjoyed all mediums; in fiction you are performing in front of a camera, there is no live audience.

— Kiku Sharda

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel…

— Mignon McLaughlin

this is every musician's dream, to stand in front of an audience and not have to prove your credentials.

— Leonard Cohen

Sitcoms are fun. The whole multi-cam genre is always a lot of fun. You throw a live audience in the mix, and…

— Jason Priestley

I just get such a connection from an audience. You play with them. I get mad at them. I yell at them.…

— Joan Rivers

The more you defend in the face of a critical audience, the more you polarize.

— George W. Bush

'Brahmotsavam' is a heart-warming family drama that will tug at the heart strings of the audience.

— Pranitha Subhash

Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.

— Katori Hall

An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.

— Desi Arnaz

I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

— Dick Cavett

Always warm up the audience with a joke…If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that…

— Jacob M. Appel

The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.

— Ken Liu