Audience Quotes · Page 106

(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch…

— William James

I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to…

— George Rodger

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from…

— Ray Romano

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience,…

— David Mamet

When you're doing a play, you're onstage, there's no stopping or starting, there's no stopping to reposition for the camera or have…

— Aneurin Barnard

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become…

— David Frum

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

— Diogenes

Being in front of an audience makes me feel alive. Being with friends makes me feel alive. I’ve done some crazy stuff…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work,…

— Rutina Wesley

Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's…

— David Mamet

Working with newbies has its own advantages as they're open to ideas and the audience can see the actresses as themselves, devoid…

— Vijay Antony

There's a method aspect to Campbell Scott character and he really wants to get into his character and he wants to cast…

— Denis Leary

I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.

— Stephen Colbert

When I think about discussions at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, a group which includes not only philosophers and psychologists, but…

— Hilary Kornblith

The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.

— Park Chan-wook

I can't say what my greatest strength between acting and singing is...I'll leave that to the critics. Maybe my best strength is…

— Erica Schroeder

I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in…

— Vince Gilligan

I think I'd like to be a lion tamer, actually. That - that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went…

— Andy Serkis

I really loved Andy Kaufman growing up, like every comedy person does. I like when sometimes the audience isn't quite sure what's…

— Mike O'Brien

The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who…

— John Shelby Spong

Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they…

— Gail Zappa

The audience for 'World of Warcraft' is a pretty committed group of players.

— Bobby Kotick

You take your audience through such a story where they have to invest their energy and emotion, and to slap them in…

— John Boyega

You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain…

— Colin Farrell

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of…

— Paul Robeson

I mean there's still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you…

— Dolph Lundgren

It's so much harder to make a living off improv. Improv is so rarified and for such a specific audience.

— Kurt Braunohler

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

— John Lithgow

I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.

— Fab Five Freddy

The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at…

— Lisa Gansky

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and…

— Ethel Merman

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

— Robin Williams

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least,…

— Billy Gibbons

I don't look down to an audience. I look up to them. They respond to quality.

— Tony Bennett

In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in…

— Robertson Davies

We [Paramore] are very different people at home, but the people that we are on-stage is just a side of us that…

— Hayley Williams

I have a philosophy that white people would be interested in Native Americans because, first of all, it's probably the only group…

— Soledad O'Brien

I don't think we need a critic to negotiate with the audience. People say, "Who are you writing for?" I'm writing for…

— T.C. Boyle