Audience Quotes · Page 33

I think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along.

— Michiel Huisman

I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.

— Stephen Sondheim

You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into…

— Tracy Letts

As an artiste, I take up roles where there is scope to perform and that can reach out to the audience.

— Biju Menon

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

— Lenny Bruce

I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

— Miranda Lambert

With cinema it's a different ballgame, you really don't know how the audience will react, so one has to tread carefully.

— Hiten Tejwani

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

— Bruce Paltrow

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage…

— Jane Alexander

I feel like when you tell people's real-life stories prior to them getting introduced to the audience, people have that connection, kind…

— Darby Allin

A lot of times, if you watch sign language interpreters, there can be some lag time issues. When that happens, I think…

— Jack Jason

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent…

— William Petersen

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the…

— Cate Blanchett

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave…

— Rosalind Russell

And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all…

— Mary Tyler Moore

Most of my major roles have been to play characters that the audience does not initially like or warm up to and…

— Robert Picardo

That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and…

— Justin Cronin

In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an…

— Al Gore

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if…

— Rick Riordan

I did theatre when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement…

— Amanda Seyfried

I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences…

— John Lasseter

For better or worse, I've become the person the Adams Estate has entrusted to guide Dirk Gently into new mediums and to…

— Arvind Ethan David

I also hope that with the assistance and expertise of Dome Records, that I will be able to further pierce the UK…

— George Duke

I actually think film and TV are sort of the same thing now. To me they're all motion pictures. There's a camera,…

— Alan Ruck

Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera…

— Amanda Schull

When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

— Ralph Richardson

I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

— Howard Thurston

It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience.

— Adrianne Palicki

It defiantly helps the chemistry onscreen if the audience can tell if the relationship is real or not.

— Nicholas Galitzine

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

— John Lasseter

When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is…

— Nick Cave

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

— Bertolt Brecht

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

— Robert Brustein

Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

— Keith Johnstone

Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience.

— Hilary Rosen

The ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people.

— Billy Bob Thornton

We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.

— Edward Tufte

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

— Eric Hoffer