Audience Quotes · Page 3

Audiences have kept me alive.

— Judy Garland

The audience is never wrong.

— Carol Burnett

That audience is there for me.

— GG Allin

Political audiences are not fun.

— Lewis Black

I have to grow with my audience.

— Ice T

Above all, ignore the audience.

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

The truth is I loved an audience.

— Debbie Reynolds

I work to please my audience.

— Jerry Lee Lewis

I like a direct relationship between actor and audience.

— Tony Harrison

I used to just lose my temper and tell the audience to shut up.

— Hope Sandoval

applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

— Ambrose Bierce

An audience can become a mob very easily.

— Paul F. Tompkins

I don't write for a particular audience.

— August Wilson

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

— Denis Norden

Comic books have gone mainstream. The audience is there.

— John Wesley Shipp

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't think a heroine-oriented film has the capacity to pull an audience like a hero-oriented film in any film industry.

— Priyamani

The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.

— Grimes

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

— Felicity Kendal

Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back.

— Ellen DeGeneres

In the end, I would love [the audience] to be more open to the understanding of different types of personalities, you know?

— Miguel Angel Silvestre

The satisfaction that one gets from entertaining live audiences has a different feel.

— Alok Nath

The audience loved 'Aashiqui 2'. We are happy we could bring back the time of romance in Bollywood.

— Bhushan Kumar

Whether there's 100 people or 100,000, we bring our 'A' game every single time. We're full-speed on stage. We kick the audience's butt.

— Coy Bowles

I think it's quite a good thing that I actually have a nice audience; you watch as they come in and it…

— Tim Key

I love playing the CMA Music Festival each year because it's one of the very best audiences you could hope for. It's…

— Trace Adkins

As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. You have to write…

— Morley

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked…

— Jerry Saltz

A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these…

— Mireille Enos

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's…

— Johnny Vegas

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly…

— Gore Vidal

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that…

— J. J. Abrams

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

— David Perry

When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's…

— Scott Berkun

I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician…

— Rush Limbaugh

Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts…

— Steven Spielberg

In the 1990s I got to play in a group that played in prisons in California. We would play in maximum security…

— Vijay Iyer

I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with…

— Maria Bamford

The format's limitations are its strengths. We can't show you the monster, but why would we want to? Your imagination is a…

— Glenn McQuaid

I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad…

— Steven Knight