Audience Quotes · Page 99

I think that baking cakes with elaborate icings for an appreciative audience is fun.

— Joey Heatherton

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

— Bruce Springsteen

That's one of the things about comedy that annoys me the most from a comedian perspective. Comedy has gotten so segregated. Now…

— Michael Che

I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.

— Dario Argento

The audience's reaction is the most rewarding thing for an actor, especially me.

— Nushrat Bharucha

I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.

— Natalie Merchant

The audience fills me back up, definitely.

— Alice Ripley

If I was feeling angry, I had to investigate not just who or what I was angry at, but why. And then…

— Paul Madonna

I feel lucky I didn't become that newspaper cartoonist I wanted to be because in the U.S. so many newspapers have suffered…

— Jeff Kinney

In a live setting, the audience is trapped and can't leave. That really makes the audience be with you and laugh more…

— Adam Conover

As for the differences between audio and the printed page, the sonic aspects of poetry are important to me. I read my…

— Rae Armantrout

I think it's doing a good job at the things that Premier Boxing Champions was setting out for. I think it is…

— Lamont Peterson

The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to…

— Gerald Arpino

What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with…

— Chris Milk

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves,…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.

— Abi Morgan

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know…

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience…

— Joan Blondell

What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and…

— Paul Feig

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

— Billy Graham

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between…

— James Gray

For all that Tron wanted to be, it ultimately had to be a fun ride for the audience and I was going…

— James Frain

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I…

— Lea Salonga

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

— Bertolt Brecht

Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

— Domenico Gnoli

I learned from my dad that when you walk in front of an audience, they are the kings and queens, and you're…

— Jerry Lewis

With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that…

— Michael Patrick King

It's always important to understand as filmmakers that we're not making a documentary and it has to look good. It has to…

— Michelle Yeoh

When you make a movie, you're just having fun with the audience.

— Gaspar Noe

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the…

— Tom Stoppard

Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

— Misty Copeland

I got to learn from the American audience. Hearing what it is they're not getting. These are audiences, 35 to 40, an…

— Peter Riegert

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same…

— David Ayer

When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that.…

— Bette Midler

American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

— Ang Lee

I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have…

— Samira Wiley

As voiceover artistes, we don't transcribe; we translate. One has to communicate what the character is feeling, and introduce humour where needed…

— Rajesh Khattar

moms aren’t the best audience for medication humor.

— Anonymous

I worked on it [ Too Much Tuna] for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience. I couldn't believe…

— Alex Timbers