Audience Quotes · Page 102

It was very easy to say to a white middle-class audience, 'What about Thatcher?' and get a reaction.

— Lee Evans

If you're doing stand-up, there is no fourth wall; you're engaging an audience.

— Jon Glaser

The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It…

— Claire Denis

After starting a blood feud with Fox News, something no Republican presidential candidate has dared to do before, [Donald] Trump seems to…

— Chris Hayes

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere…

— Anurag Kashyap

I've seen the power of the community. A young person can stand up, talk about his dream, and someone from the audience…

— Lakshmi Pratury

I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is…

— Michel Hazanavicius

The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense…

— Gloria Steinem

What changed after 'Scam' on a bigger level was the way the audience and the makers started looking at me as an…

— Pratik Gandhi

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

I'm pretty sure my audience could be bigger, if I could get it out a lot more different places, but that's what…

— The Jacka

When you're working on a game that has a budget of tens of millions of dollars and you have to sell millions…

— Steve Gaynor

I'm interested in cinematic realism. I think there is a rich potential to bring to audiences people they haven't seen before, that…

— Matthew Porterfield

I felt there was a certain amount of violence in the graphic and that it could still be cheated on screen so…

— Sylvain White

You don't service a big, fun premise comedy and then shoot yourself in the foot with too much irony. You need the…

— Shawn Levy

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would…

— Moises Arias

The only pressure on me is that I should never disappoint my audience.

— Sajid Khan

I wanted to make a film about anorexia. I thought about it for a long time, but then gave up on this…

— Malgorzata Szumowska

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.

— Martin Short

Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to…

— Livy

I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they…

— Scott Derrickson

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

— Gore Vidal

Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually…

— Franklyn Ajaye

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of…

— Anonymous

For the really scary stuff to work at the end you have to fall in love a little bit with the family…

— Ron Livingston

I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and…

— Carlton Cuse

I got on stage and I went, "Oh wow. No stage fright." I couldn't do public speaking, and I couldn't play the…

— Holly Hunter

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to…

— Jason Bateman

What I always expect to deliver to my audience is a very entertaining evening of singing and playing.

— Steve Miller

I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will…

— Alan Bennett

An artist strives to frame his ideals in an image; to challenge his audience and to make his vision immortal. But the…

— Andrew Ryan

I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly…

— Peggy Lee

There are so many times where I may share a dirty joke or laugh at one, but the due restriction has to…

— Sajid Khan

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

— Johnny Vegas

You have that moment just before you go on - I've had it in every play - where you just kind of…

— Jessica Raine

I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway…

— Steven Spielberg

Cartoon Hangover has given us another place we felt we could find the most talented people around the world and give them…

— Fred Seibert

I don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.

— Samaire Armstrong