Audience Quotes · Page 103

The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.

— Moses Hadas

A story has to have several layers to sustain audience interest in each episode.

— Amala Akkineni

There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.

— Dan Hicks

I've always wanted to do, oddly enough, a live variety show, but only with a live audience.

— Joel Grey

I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with…

— Lyle Lovett

The response that I get from the Lucknow audience is always the best.

— Javed Ali

If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.

— Stewart O'Nan

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.

— Leo Kottke

You may have an older audience in front of you holding the Bible and a younger audience holding an iPhone. You don't…

— Tony Evans

So it's discouraging and, yet, when you make a movie like Wonder Boys, in a sense it's its own reward, because it…

— Curtis Hanson

One of the great joys of launching your idea on the web is that it's a meritocracy. The good stuff will rise…

— Rob Manuel

If an audience doesn't get that [Black Snake Moan] is a movie about overcoming exploitation, it could come across as incredibly misogynistic.…

— Christina Ricci

When you're in front of an audience, you know if it didn't work. I get very nervous and have a fear of…

— Andy Daly

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

I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's…

— Scott Glenn

The more I protest that I'm not Lemony Snicket, and that I'm Daniel Handler instead, the more it becomes clear to the…

— Daniel Handler

“She sat in her chair, eyes closed. She liked to be the last one to leave. She despised crowds, and their opinions…

— Janet Fitch

I'm realistic about it. It's been quite some years since I've worked full-time in that area, so I no longer have any…

— Eric Bana

To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business…

— Eli Broad

For me, the most gratifying part in touring is singing the songs that I know tmy fans love, it's those moments when…

— Lalah Hathaway

It's so much better for me to do a talk show. You still have that energy of the audience, and the audience…

— Ellen DeGeneres

Before the widespread rise of the Internet and easy publishing tools, influence was largely in the hands of those who could reach…

— Matt Mullenweg

Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to…

— Robertson Davies

What I react against in other people's work, as a filmgoer, is when I see something in a movie that I feel…

— Christopher Nolan

We earned the 'Line of Duty' audience's loyalty over a number of years, and I feel privileged to have that.

— Jed Mercurio

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

— Shawn Ryan

Whenever I've surprised my audience, I've gained something out of it.

— Taapsee Pannu

I did not fix any genre for 'AK.' We just write a story and audience will put it in a genre as…

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

Mars Volta was always about embracing what 'too much' was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a…

— Michael Brandt

I like that in my audiences, there's a lesbian couple sitting next to a Mormon family.

— Jim Gaffigan

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

— Don Roff

A lot of people think stand-up comedy is one person performing to an audience, but I love it more when it's a…

— Rosie Jones

When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and…

— Margaret Thatcher

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

— Pierce Brosnan

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

— Carter Burwell

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am…

— Jackie Chan

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me…

— Bobby Vinton

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what…

— G-Eazy

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

— Kim Gordon