Audience Quotes · Page 107

The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know,…

— Mel Brooks

I love playing the Hard Rocks; they've got a great stage, great lighting, great sound, and not so humongous; its more intimate,…

— Mike Love

I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the…

— Mike Leigh

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the…

— Kate Smith

Acting is about truths and the more truths you're able to tell and share with your audience the more connection there will…

— Glynn Turman

There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk…

— Jerry Seinfeld

Sean Chen has been an audience favorite from the early rounds. With his floppy hair and outstanding stage presence combined with an…

— Gregory Isaacs

Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping…

— Bobby McFerrin

Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special…

— Twyla Tharp

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that…

— Anne Carson

I've always loved theatre because it's so immediate. The challenge of it is that, career wise, it's easier to get traction in…

— Steven C. Harper

If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on…

— Edmund Snow Carpenter

I think the other side of that is embracing the claustrophobia, and that's what a huge piece of this show is, just…

— Kyra Zagorsky

And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I never aspire to be objective because I don't believe in objectivity. It's important to be truthful, and it's important to make…

— Rory Kennedy

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

— Kenneth Tynan

For us, we are interested in doing what's cool for us and what's cool for the audience. That's it.

— Andy Biersack

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to…

— Wilbur Smith

The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to…

— Kate Tempest

I want to work on projects that I can connect with and those that establish a connectivity with the audience too.

— Prateik Babbar

There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.

— George Carlin

Performance is really an important part of how I edit. I sometimes take something out because I realize I put in a…

— David Sedaris

I would love to see more dialogue around the "responsibilities" of art consumers - how can audiences better financially support artists we…

— Vivek Shraya

After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this…

— Jeff Britting

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a…

— Joshua Bell

I performed in public for the first time at three years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was on…

— Jaime Pressly

I'm just looking forward to doing these videos with AXE. Doing more directing, collaborating with them, finding ways to kind of like…

— Michael B. Jordan

I am so used to being up on stage and talking to my fans that it's strange to be on stage and…

— Jordin Sparks

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

— Woody Allen

This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not…

— Linda Ronstadt

I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just…

— Paul Weller

To be honest, I don't try to speak and target who my 'audience' is. I just do my thing.

— Pedro Capo

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

— Kevin Smith

You may have an older audience in front of you holding the Bible and a younger audience holding an iPhone. You don't…

— Tony Evans

I try to tailor a talk to the audience.

— Jack Swigert

When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look temporarily--in…

— Deborah Tannen

As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice…

— Lester Holt

You can't wait forever for an audience to get the joke, but you should give them at least two seconds to join…

— Franklyn Ajaye

The targets of George W. Bush's 'axis of evil' speech were not Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Those regimes don't need a…

— Antony Blinken

You need response from the fan to fuel your sense of musical rebellion. It's very symbiotic, it's very cyclic in a way.…

— Corey Taylor