Audience Quotes · Page 73

“She would keep playing the role as long as the audience fell for it”

— Mary Papas

It's not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We're just presenting our music; it's really much more…

— Lee Ranaldo

When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.

— Ann-Margret

The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.

— Ranbir Kapoor

I always like to be a step ahead of the audience by surprising them and the best way to do that is…

— Anna Camp

It's impossible for me to play a part without thinking about the audience.

— Christopher Walken

A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

— Kim Jong Il

I tend to like the heavier things, especially live on stage. I need that energy and interaction and feeling the audience.

— Mike Portnoy

Most obviously it [Doctor Strange] will introduce a new character who will be in play in the universe, but once you have…

— Kevin Feige

You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing…

— Chad Harbach

I think I'd like to be a lion tamer, actually. That - that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went…

— Andy Serkis

With 'Millennium,' you're not going to see the normal TV character developments that people might think 'Oh, the audience wants to see…

— David Nutter

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You…

— Jack Lemmon

Over the years, we've developed a respect for each other in the roles that we play and we rely on that difference…

— Jamie Hyneman

The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the…

— Ben Kingsley

I think theater and church are so relatable because it's traditional call-and-response in the way that an audience interacts with the actors.

— Danielle Brooks

I think the Control has really opened up the music to a whole new audience. I've met kids recently, kids of people…

— Orian Williams

One thing we haven't mentioned is something everyone should understand very clearly. Look at the budget that was invested in 'Avatar': who…

— Jackie Chan

Walt Disney has never addressed himself to children once in his life - never. The material of his cartoons is made to…

— Frances Clarke Sayers

I don't want people to think about one common thing. Coda is non-discursive, just like choreography for the stage. So each audience…

— Martine Epoque

I think it's doing a good job at the things that Premier Boxing Champions was setting out for. I think it is…

— Lamont Peterson

Before my commercial career, I never played for more than an audience of 99 seats somewhere in downtown New York, but occasionally…

— Paul Marcarelli

There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the…

— Pauline Kael

The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which…

— Flannery O'Connor

Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China's culture.

— Bill Vaughan

There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience.

— Errol Morris

Though the film industry is my primary area of work, television allows me to reach out to the audience quicker.

— Manobala

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

— Lenny Bruce

I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

— Miranda Lambert

Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera…

— Amanda Schull

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

— Bruce Paltrow

With cinema it's a different ballgame, you really don't know how the audience will react, so one has to tread carefully.

— Hiten Tejwani

I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.

— Stephen Sondheim

I think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along.

— Michiel Huisman

There's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience.

— Will Packer

There's a lot of audience participation in 'Rock of Ages' and 'Rocky Horror.'

— Frankie Grande

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

— Shirley Booth

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

— Andrew Dominik

As an artiste, I take up roles where there is scope to perform and that can reach out to the audience.

— Biju Menon

You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into…

— Tracy Letts