Audience Quotes · Page 70

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

— Marsha Norman

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

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

— Bob Lefsetz

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

— Brian Austin Green

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

— Adam Lambert

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

— Prunella Scales

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

— Hilary Hahn

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

— Jonita Gandhi

I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience…

— Donnie Yen

With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit…

— Andrea Arnold

If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting…

— Betty Carter

I'm happy about the fact that my audience is very open to new music. They're dying for new music. So all I…

— Kenny Loggins

Certain audiences get the double meaning and some of the references and ironies, but there's definitely been shows where I feel like…

— Emily Haines

I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where…

— Eli Roth

Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble…

— Jay Asher

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous…

— Carole Radziwill

I wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times about the amazing effect of shared wonder - how I have an…

— David Copperfield

And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first…

— Jerry Uelsmann

The papers that flourish will be papers that serve a national audience. Papers that have figured out how to make the transition…

— Terry Teachout

At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell.…

— Gavin O'Connor

The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly.…

— Tony Iommi

I'd be lying if I said I went into any project with any premeditated ideas of what's gonna happen or what's gonna…

— Devin Townsend

From a simple, mammal perspective, you think you're going to make friends through the movie. You think, "Oh, this kind of humor…

— Gaspar Noe

I think what's exciting about doing it as found footage - if we all are being honest, found footage gets a little…

— Dean Israelite

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

— Marty Scurll

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

— Hrithik Roshan

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

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

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

— Craig Ferguson

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

— Navya Nair

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

— Billy Squier

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

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

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

— Ben Vereen

I live in my own bubble. I was looking for an audience that wouldn't necessarily be looking for escapism when they came…

— Art Spiegelman

The problem with individual opinion is that it doesn't necessary correlate with what the mass audience is thinking.

— Jed Mercurio

Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.

— Chet Faker

The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on…

— Robert Fripp