Audience Quotes · Page 93

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

— Johnny Vegas

I don't want to make films that are constantly pleasing the audience, it is not my tradition.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.

— Judd Apatow

The audience falls in love with a leading man because he'll never belong to any of them.

— Lisa Kleypas

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

— Dwayne Johnson

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

— Len Wein

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

— Steven Spielberg

Just as an audience member, I've always preferred dark things and very heavy, emotional things.

— India Eisley

You can't worry too much about what you think the audience wants to hear. You just have to hope that you're a…

— Jim Jefferies

During seventy years of TV, the audience came to feel that the rules are, you can't kill the second lead on your…

— Terence Winter

My career is based on the slow build of an audience based on putting on a good show live and putting out…

— Bonnie Raitt

You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in…

— Jay Maisel

Say you have a young black kid, and you come to see a Sondheim show. You love the material, but you look…

— Michael Arden

At the beginning of the tour, I arrange the live show exactly like the album, but of course from one audience to…

— Rokia Traore

A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to…

— Stephan Pastis

I feel 'Britannia High' is aimed at an older audience than 'High School Musical.' 'Britannia High' is more of a serious drama,…

— Mitch Hewer

The elements that create glamour are not specific styles - bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture - but more general qualities: grace, mystery,…

— Virginia Postrel

Many friends of mine told me that normally only guys like a kung fu movie and the girls would be turned off…

— Donnie Yen

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet…

— L. Frank Baum

There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after…

— Steve Carell

The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a…

— Betty White

There's a gratification that comes from performing in front of a live audience, and you can't replicate that with anything else. In…

— Trace Adkins

Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second predict 70…

— Amy Cuddy

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that…

— Joan Cusack

I believe in advancing the story with the cover so that the audience gets taken in immediately with that cover.

— Neal Adams

Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience not a national audience.

— Scotty Cameron

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the…

— Ajay Devgan

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

— Roberto Benigni

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

— Jerry Herman

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb…

— Stephen Sondheim

Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters.

— Ridley Scott

I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in…

— Asghar Farhadi

I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that…

— Barbra Streisand

When an audience takes to a song and it becomes older, in a way it changes it entirely. And then the journey…

— Adrianne Lenker

I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?

— Ernst Lubitsch

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

— Howard Rheingold

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

— Stephen King

When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.

— Sam Smith

Diamond Dallas Page didn't have that larger-than-life persona, but he had a different connection with the audience.

— Eric Bischoff

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

— Garry Wills