Audience Quotes · Page 174

'Tangerine' taught me that if you win an audience over with comedy, then hopefully have a soulful message at the same time.

— Sean Baker

[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the…

— Lotte Lehmann

I'm worried that the audience is being conditioned. That's my real fear. Because if they don't want to see wrinkles on the…

— Robin Wright

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a…

— Marsha Norman

We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and…

— Bill Watterson

The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's…

— Zola Jesus

You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

— Molly Shannon

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck…

— Robert Carlyle

A film is between you and the audience. The distributors are the only people in between us. It is a straight equation.

— Mani Ratnam

The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to…

— Conrad Hall

I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's…

— Michael Moore

I like movies too much. I watch all kinds of films. In a way, all filmmakers are basically audience.

— Zoya Akhtar

I'm constantly looking for something that will be pushing the audience to new scares in horror movies.

— Roy Lee

I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that…

— Howard Stringer

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody…

— Paula Poundstone

Clearly, audiences are very accepting of A-list talent both giving them what they want - Tom Hanks is the most classic example…

— Mark Canton

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

— Robert Brustein

I enjoy keeping busy, and fortunately for me, there's a large audience out there who are keen to hear me sing. It's…

— Asha Bhosle

I'm very lucky to be on 'Melissa and Joey' because it's a multi-cam sitcom, and it was a nice transition from theatre…

— Nick Robinson

One night around that time, at Hammersmith, Bob Dylan was about to go into [his 1963 classic] 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.He…

— Bob Dylan

Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing…

— Naturi Naughton

You can't have an actor where the audience says, aw, that poor, sweet guy. You got to get somebody who's, like, nondescript…

— Garry Marshall

I'll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what's going to happen with your piece until an…

— James Burrows

“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience…

— Joe Dante

If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old…

— Maureen Howard

I want to build an audience that's willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.

— Bradford Cox

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

— Herb Alpert

With my family as my audience, I used to sing, dance, and reenact every scene from 'Grease,' 'Newsies' and 'Les Miserables' as…

— Torrey DeVitto

The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to…

— Randy Owen

You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides…

— Jon Lovitz

Cuban public is special - they participate, generate a lot of energy, both in a positive and negative sense. It's always an…

— Fernando Perez

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

— John Eaton

The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be…

— Akira Kurosawa

Playing music in front of thousands of people never bothered me. It was only when I started putting on magic shows in…

— David Lovering

The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and…

— Angela Lansbury

I think, as an artist, whether you're making people laugh or cry or be frustrated or excited - the fact that you're…

— Elisha Cuthbert

I will not pretend to be something that I'm not. I certainly won't do it to win the audience over.

— Chael Sonnen

I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.

— Julian Ovenden

You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as…

— T.I