My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have…

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.

— Patrick O'Brian

If I knew what the audience wants to hear I would be the richest guy in the world! There are a lot of people…

— Mahesh Manjrekar

When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.

— Dan Graham

That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

— Rick Yancey

The audience wants to hear 'Rock n' Me,' 'Space Cowboy,' 'Living in the U.S.A.' When you start to play something else, you can feel…

— Steve Miller

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody's attention in the same place.

— Leo Kottke

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

— Bernie Mac

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do stand up, it's silent. But…

— Aubrey Plaza

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

— Tristan Bernard

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.

— Leo Kottke

The key is to identify and know what the audience wants and give it to them in the best package possible.

— Bhushan Kumar

“Because that's what you do when the curtain is falling, you say the line the audience wants to hear.”

— Rick Yancey

“For the next three hours . . .” Wow! Talk about an interest-killer. The last thing any audience wants to be reminded of is that it will…

— Bill McGowan

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

— Andy Richter

In my career, I've been lucky to do the bad guys that are more interesting, where the audience wants to spend more time with…

— Peter Stormare