Audience Quotes · Page 88

I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them…

— Judy Garland

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

— George Carlin

I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct…

— Laura Benanti

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best…

— Jeff Coffin

Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

— Mary Astor

If the audience can connect with you, then you've done something that lasts. I think that's what any good art is.

— John Popper

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are…

— Dick Wolf

I would love to work in international movies just because the talent all around the world is great. There's a lot of…

— Aksel Hennie

I've been an audience member for friends in plays that I don't enjoy and I have to lie to their faces. It's…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

Writing, for me, is a combination of objective and subjective approach. You take an objective approach at times to get you through…

— Christopher Nolan

I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face…

— Jim Carroll

You don't want to get too far ahead of the audience and you don't want the audience to be ahead of you.…

— David Ayer

I once got my stiletto caught in my horse's tail on stage and went flying into the audience. It was a mental…

— Alison Goldfrapp

I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was…

— J. Tillman

When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are…

— Suzanne Farrell

Audience interest is directly proportionate to the presenter's preparation. You better spend time and energy on any presentations where the stakes are…

— Nancy Duarte

I never wanted there to be any moment in my movies when something would happen and the audience would cheer, like sometimes…

— Rob Zombie

I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that.…

— Susan Schneider

What I've observed is that television in the last decade has increased to something that's almost unrecognizable. They are feature films. That's…

— John Noble

Unlike someone like Tom Hanks, or U2, the comics industry is not a thriving industry and we all need to keep and…

— John Rozum

Even during the promotion I told people that I didn't like Rush Hour. The jokes I didn't understand and the fighting, compared…

— Jackie Chan

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that…

— Lena Dunham

I have become a giant fan of the testing process, especially with a comedy. I mean, they tell you what's funny. It's…

— Seth Rogen

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

— Edward Hall

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond…a good feeling about…

— Robert Pinsky

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

— Zhang Yimou

I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

— Ian Mckellen

You can't abandon an audience you created, because people will find someone else.

— Raheem DeVaughn

When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.

— Jennifer Damiano

If you can make an audience laugh, you can make them love any character.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.

— George Carlin

I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience's imagination.

— Sam Levinson

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

— Oscar Isaac

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

— William Landay

I want to thank the audience of both the Telugu speaking states for standing by me throughout my journey.

— Allu Arjun

I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it's getting.

— Barry Levinson

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

— David Copperfield

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

— Sylvester Stallone

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

— Theodore Bikel