Audience Quotes · Page 200

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

— George Szell

There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost like you can not only hear people's response, but you…

— Mike Birbiglia

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

— Robert Brustein

Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are…

— Leslie Moonves

Unsuccessful headlines were not written without a strong appeal, but it was the wrong appeal for that product and that audience.

— John Caples

Women watched for the spectacular performances of the men, and there can be no reasonable doubt that the presence of an audience…

— Gregory Bateson

Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political…

— Isla Fisher

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

— Simon McBurney

For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume... to do something…

— Andrea Bocelli

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

— George Carlin

The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his…

— Robin G. Collingwood

Whether you are a star kid or not, it all depends on the actor and how he/she can get the audience to…

— Akhil Akkineni

Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have…

— Susan Wiggs

When you look at the current state of reality TV, at least on the mainstream level, the shows that tend to be…

— Dan Cutforth

The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep…

— David Frum

I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make…

— Ronny Cox

I want to develop a sense of self, values, morals, and then attract an audience based off those things, as opposed to…

— Pokimane

I've really enjoyed working with Brody King and PCO, and offering a different side of 'The Villain' to the audience.

— Marty Scurll

Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd.

— Joseph Parker

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

— Robert McKee

I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight…

— Joan Jett

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

— Jeff Garlin

Nothing has really changed. We had bootleg albums in the '60s and today we have Internet file sharing. They just found a…

— Richie Havens

I don't know of any science writing going on in women's magazines, unless you count medical stories about things like breast cancer.…

— Margaret Wertheim

The power of Facebook is not only in the vast size of the connected audience, but also in the quality of the…

— David Perry

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

— Carrie Fisher

The audience wants you present, not perfect.

— Darren LaCroix

If you want an audience that genuinely sticks around, you have to listen to what their opinion is.

— Ana Kasparian

When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.

— Ian Mckellen

I always felt like, if I started feeling stale, my audience is probably feeling it before me.

— The Undertaker

I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of…

— Giancarlo Esposito

Solidly know content you feel passionate about and that your audience needs to know.

— Tony Robbins

[Writing] books is really fun because your "voice" is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience.…

— Liz Tuccillo

Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing…

— Rita Rudner

I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But…

— Christopher Walken

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel…

— Phillip Noyce

I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through…

— Brett Ratner

There's always a crisis somewhere, and you get the satisfaction of solving the problem. And then, there's always the mystery of whether…

— Rebecca Eaton

Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience…

— Jim Henson

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something…

— Edward Norton