Audience Quotes · Page 157

Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.

— Maurice Sendak

I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up.…

— Earl Hines

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in…

— Sanjay Dutt

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing,…

— Britney Spears

Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And…

— Lajos Egri

We've played two shows with seated audiences, and two with a standing audience. Both were cool. Sitting is more mental, in a…

— Pantha du Prince

I never met Barry Crump, but I was in an audience once for a play once. There was a drunken man at…

— Sam Neill

I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre…

— James Belushi

Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be…

— Twyla Tharp

In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those.…

— Vikram Seth

We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own…

— Keith Richards

I forgot how scary plays are. The audience is so much a part of the night - I know that a lot…

— Kathryn Erbe

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested…

— Boman Irani

In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

— Gail Sheehy

Sometimes I feel really bad for the audience. I don't know how to make them happy. And you just feel drained cause…

— Charlyne Yi

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

— Jack Wild

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend…

— Harold Ramis

I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That…

— John Waters

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm really not that funny in real life. But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

— Carol Burnett

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

— Kim Gordon

It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always…

— Stephen Malkmus

I've heard from other artists that people are a little bit more reserved in Northern Europe, which comes across at concerts, where…

— Agnes Obel

When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation…

— James Arthur

You want the audience to be in the character's shoes. The more deeply into the character's shoes the audience is, the more…

— Jonathan Demme

There is always room for improvement; so I always invite criticism from my audience.

— Rituparna Sengupta

Cornelius Cardew very famous in Britain, because he was the darling of the avant-garde, and he played in a band called AMM,…

— Alasdair MacLean

I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only…

— Tom Peters

When you're singing, it can be looked at as a monologue, in a way. If it's about telling a story and connecting…

— Naturi Naughton

The first time I ever saw a black audience at our concert, we were in Zimbabwe.

— Clarence Clemons

There's always been a lot of negative stuff written about me. That's why I don't pay any attention to the critics. They've…

— Eddie Murphy

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they…

— Aravind Adiga

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

My hope is that digital technology will level things out more and that it will eventually eliminate favoritism. But technology cannot do…

— Lexi Alexander

I have to be able to pull you in. How can I diversify my audiences? What role do I have to play…

— Nick Cave

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

— Anthony Giddens

Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.

— Bob Lefsetz

Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things…

— Steve Martin

I like to think about what the song is saying, the story of it, and conveying the mood of that to the…

— Bridgit Mendler

The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly.…

— Tony Iommi