Audience Quotes · Page 79

Films are made for audience's appreciation but films are also made for artistic satisfaction.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

— Charlton Heston

Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.

— Gene Wilder

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

— Charley Reese

The audience determines whether they still want to watch you or not.

— Akshaye Khanna

Selling an idea to a publisher is not as valuable as selling your audience to a publisher.

— Sarah Cooper

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

Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation…

— Art Buchwald

“You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?" "Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there as the geek. They like to…

— Charles Bukowski

What's great about having the live audience is you know immediately if you're funny or not. That always helped when we were…

— Emily Osment

I really want the audience to place close attention to the movement, possibilities of movement, possibilities of trespassing boundaries and observe what's…

— Todd Haynes

To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the…

— Roy Wood

Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist…

— V. S. Pritchett

I never know which camera is on me when I'm dancing and the director picks the shot he likes but it usually…

— Cyd Charisse

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater.…

— Jack Bowman

With a comedian, it's the opposite. You put that album out, and they've heard it. If they're coming out to see you,…

— Patton Oswalt

The risk for me has to do with the nudity aspects. I'm an American actress in mainstream movies, and I would like…

— Amanda Seyfried

We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep…

— Daphne du Maurier

Many times - especially when I'm playing an historical character - I want to be really on target with how I create…

— Giancarlo Esposito

All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds…

— Idina Menzel

We absolutely need diversity [in game designers]. And not just diversity of gender, but diversity of cultures, of ethnicity, of sexuality. If…

— Brenda Romero

I make comedies and I always try... I don't try but I allow to have at least 5% of the jokes or…

— Alexander Payne

Theatre is very much concerned with the society, with the social situation... A theatre piece of itself, demands a confrontation with the…

— Griselda Gambaro

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

— Bob Lefsetz

We write stories that we like and hope the kids like them, too. But we definitely make sure that they skew toward…

— Butch Hartman

When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.

— Wyclef Jean

I never want to be winking at the audience and saying, "This character is really a nice guy."

— Vik Sahay

I think in order to find your audience and let them get to know you, you have to introduce yourself a little…

— Lari White

“Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

— Julianne Moore

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by…

— Mark Twain

I'm not very comfortable about the audience getting a peek into my personal life. I like to keep my personal space.

— Karishma Tanna

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

— Robert Rodriguez

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

— John Cale

The toughest challenge for any actor is to get accepted and loved by the audience.

— Varun Sharma

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.

— Candice Patton

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

— Chad Hurley

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

— Raphael Saadiq