On stage I'm basically spiritually feeding all of these…

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

— Kaki King

You've got to stick up for what you believe in. If you don't do that, you're doing a disservice to the audience, because you're…

— Lynne Ramsay

I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.

— Melinda Clarke

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a…

— Octavia Butler

The audience is making the film and not the film-maker.

— Woody Allen

I definitely enjoyed being in front of an audience, making people laugh, and telling stories, so when I realized I could do all three…

— Casey Cott

I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's…

— Harold Prince

Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience…

— Genevieve Gorder

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.

— Mitski

There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue - you know, say, as a gun…

— Brad Paisley

The one thing that Jessica [Johnson] and Miles[Morales] have in common is that there's a great many people in the audience who were desperate…

— Brian Michael Bendis

Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like…

— Jenna Elfman

As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with…

— Simon Mainwaring

I used to think interacting with people in the audience, touching people in the crowd, was a total ego-based thing. I never realized how…

— Kevin Parker

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

— Riccardo Muti