Audience Quotes · Page 107

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

— Sara Blecher

The audience that watches on Sunday night is upscale, very female, and very engaged.

— Nina Tassler

The audience is the source of the energy that I project back to them.

— Blixa Bargeld

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

— Pat Metheny

I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

— Dorothy Fields

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

— Andrew Stanton

The audience always looks for a change. After a spate of action, and romance, now they want to laugh.

— Kovai Sarala

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

— Frank Capra

I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an…

— Sasha Alexander

People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd…

— Ozzy Osbourne

I'm sorry, but to ask an audience these days to invest three hours in a show requires your heroine be an understandable…

— Diane Paulus

I would like to reach non-gamers. It's always great when guys come up to me who are gamers and represent my usual…

— Tim Schafer

I think there's a kind of love relationship between an actor and an audience, and this is something I really feel with…

— Francois Cluzet

Bob Monkhouse, Galton and Simpson, Spike Milligan and I all started around the same time with an enormous advantage: working to an…

— Denis Norden

You can't apologize for who you are on a stage, you can reveal who you are but don't apologize because that's begging…

— Jim Norton

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres…

— Andrzej Wajda

Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest…

— Ang Lee

I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western…

— Anonymous

Scientists blame the audience for being too stupid, shallow, or lazy to understand. There has been a fascinating debate in the blogosphere…

— Mark Powell

It doesn't matter if you have the greatest product in the world if no one will buy it. Have an idea of…

— Cameron Johnson

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes…

— Virginia Postrel

Anybody who's done standup will tell you that there's nothing like it. The show starts at 8:00, the curtain goes up and…

— Denis Leary

American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity…

— Steven Soderbergh

Any kind of sequence when you have to express physical space and time can be difficult to story-tell because, if you're sitting…

— Patrick Fugit

In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect

— Tristan Bernard

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

— Dorothy Fields

When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing.

— John Lasseter

I believe that for the audience the best way to give the commentating is to avoid going into the deep, deep details.

— Judit Polgar

It's wonderful to be part of a film that really reaches an audience's mind and an audience's heart.

— Nathan Phillips

Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.

— Maurice Sendak

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

— Christopher Walken

Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for…

— Adam Driver

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be…

— Scott Wolf

I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating…

— Vince Vaughn

I think the idea of doing a live audience taped show every week and just the rush of that would be a…

— Amber Stevens

I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.

— Eddie Vedder

I just think there was a great relationship between the audience and myself.

— Soupy Sales

Sometimes a person comes into an audience after a rough day, and they want to hear something they know.

— Hilary Hahn

You always hope an audience will respond to something you've done, but there's no way of knowing whether or not they will.

— Adeel Akhtar