Audience Quotes · Page 71

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by…

— Eddie Marsan

I am an artist. An actor performs, whether it's in front of the camera or a live audience.

— Puneet Issar

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

— Artie Shaw

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

— Walter Jon Williams

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

— Guy Pearce

You can't control the audience. When you're on the air and they're not coming to the party, it's time to shut down…

— Adam Baldwin

The audience does not want to watch the same show for three years or more.

— Hiten Tejwani

Voice work is the best - no need to dress up, no audience, no pressure, nobody's judging you.

— Kym Whitley

I intentionally worked on my YouTube channel and Instagram page early on and made a conscious effort to try to funnel over…

— Pokimane

Marvel does a fantastic job about bringing human stories - because you're telling big stories with a heart at the centre of…

— Mike Colter

The best shows have a clear idea of what they want to achieve, where the performers have the ability to disrupt normality…

— Lyn Gardner

There's nothing you can't tell to an audience, because they're all people who've had lives. The only thing they don't want to…

— Sara Pascoe

You have to measure your success by the way your audience responds to your games. No matter how small that audience is,…

— Orson Scott Card

TV isn't a wide medium when it comes to boldness on the small screen because of the audience. It reaches out to…

— Nia Sharma

I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep…

— Augusten Burroughs

Ultimately it's just music - whether I'm catering to the Bollywood audience or the indie audience. I just approach every type of…

— Amit Trivedi

“Regardless of the subject of my films … I am looking for a way of evoking in audiences feelings similar to my…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

It's basically how I choose movie roles. Would I like to see this movie? Is this movie important? Why would I do…

— Aksel Hennie

I feel like there's not this black-and-white division between concert hall music and music that bands play in a bar. I don't…

— Missy Mazzoli

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.…

— Joe Strummer

I'm happy that my films were discovered by chance by foreign film festivals. That makes me realise more that there is a…

— Takashi Miike

Frankly, seeing my plays with an audience is something I do with gritted teeth; I find the experience very difficult. I love…

— Richard Greenberg

There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to…

— Harrison Ford

There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and…

— Neill Blomkamp

I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It's the same cynicism that [Strange]…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Many people consider darts a sport, with a live audience and very excited fans and competitors who aren't hitting the bull's-eye.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I always give the audience a variety because I want to make sure they hear the favorites and all that.

— Vonda Shepard

I make dramedies, but 'Tangerine' really has a lot of comedy, and I saw that it had a great effect - it…

— Sean Baker

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

— Katherine Moennig

Personally, as a filmmaker, I think you should prepare your audience as to what they can expect.

— Sudeep

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

— Brit Marling

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

— Irrfan Khan

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work,…

— Rutina Wesley

The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.

— Jan de Bont

Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.

— Andrew Tudor

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

— Shirley Booth

I'm really not a fan of letting the audience live vicariously through stuff.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I'm incredibly proud of the show 'Portlandia' that I do, but it's designed for an audience that just wants that and loves…

— Lorne Michaels

Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.

— Richard Strauss

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

— Marlon Brando