Audience Quotes · Page 76

My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

— Mark Twain

The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there…

— Alan Tudyk

Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.

— Amitabh Bachchan

I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.

— Dario Argento

Never underestimate the effect you can have on certain sections of the audience, though. You should see some of the letters I…

— John Nettles

I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine…

— Colin Quinn

I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.

— Bo Burnham

We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.

— Edward Tufte

I'm interested in putting something on stage that will have a very wide appeal without being condescending; that will reach an audience…

— Alvin Ailey

African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark…

— Billy Wilder

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had…

— Bob Newhart

Comedy shows in D.C. are so much fun. I think because of the intense area that is connected to politics that people…

— Joe Rogan

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience,…

— Pete Seeger

I don't want to make it a hard, fast rule, but it's surprising how many 'fun for the whole family' acts are…

— Kyle Kinane

There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of…

— Pete Docter

I think you've got to take the risks. There's no point playing it safe, because either you'll get bored or the audiences…

— Keira Knightley

It was incredible, Lady Gaga came to see the piece. She didn't sit with me, but it was all atwitter. Every single…

— Marina Abramovic

Many people become self-conscious when they communicate. Whether it's writing or speaking, they are consumed by anxiety. Self-consciousness is an impediment to…

— James M Strock

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to…

— Jon Bon Jovi

By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or…

— Paul Brown

For me it's a new experience every single time, because - The dance community has a great strength in synergizing immediately. So…

— Alyson Stoner

I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of…

— Wendy Wasserstein

If I had to fall in love with all the actresses I play with and live the situations I have to play,…

— Olivier Martinez

I can't dumb down for the audience because I believe my audience is at least as smart as I am.

— Ranvir Shorey

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.

— Greg Kinnear

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

— Eric Hoffer

Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience.

— Hilary Rosen

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

— Robert Brustein

Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

— Keith Johnstone

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

— Bertolt Brecht

The ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people.

— Billy Bob Thornton

It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience.

— Adrianne Palicki

When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is…

— Nick Cave

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

— John Lasseter

It defiantly helps the chemistry onscreen if the audience can tell if the relationship is real or not.

— Nicholas Galitzine

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

— Ralph Richardson

When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

— Howard Thurston

I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the…

— Benedict Cumberbatch