I try to read the audience, see what they're in the mood…

I will do whatever I can to become the character. I have no right to distract the audience from the mood of the film.

— Vijay Sethupathi

It's challenging to open for someone: You've got to prep the audience, get them in the mood, and get their attention if they don't…

— Dua Lipa

I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema, especially during…

— Alison Goldfrapp

On stage, you have the instant reaction. I'm in control of my own destiny up there. If I fail, I can always say, 'I…

— Jim Breuer

If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.

— Cary Fukunaga

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

— Sarah Mlynowski

Often if you are very, very close with someone, sometimes it does not read. In effect, your dynamic onstage is defused. You share too…

— Jessica Hecht

If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

— Malcolm Gladwell

I think people get too comfortable, in just doing what they do every week. And I'm all about challenge and change, and I like…

— Trish Stratus

“People are like books. You can either read them, or you can burn them. But before I try to read you, I’ve got to…

— Jarod Kintz

I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on the go.

— Warren Ellis

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

— Zadie Smith

I try to read as much as I can.

— J.I.D

I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try…

— John Updike

What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.

— Frederick Busch