Audience Quotes · Page 110

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

— Robert Ludlum

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

— Twyla Tharp

It seems like movies that have heart to them always do well, and they find their audience.

— Jeff Foxworthy

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.

— Freddie Mercury

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

— Brian Eno

It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.

— Will Rogers

I want the audience to watch my films, and that is what I value more than any awards.

— Fahadh Faasil

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

— Sonny Chiba

And by the right thing, I mean that whatever step we take next, the first criteria we should consider is the people…

— Neil Cross

What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because…

— John Lydon

I feel like 'Sweat' arrived on Broadway at the moment that it needed to. I feel like a commercial audience was not…

— Lynn Nottage

People wonder if the Pearl Jam audience will get into The Buzzcocks. Eddie Vedder is a big Buzzcocks fan. He used to…

— Steve Diggle

It's challenging to open for someone: You've got to prep the audience, get them in the mood, and get their attention if…

— Dua Lipa

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about…

— David Antin

I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If…

— Jane Pauley

Look at that fat kid, in the audience. You want some pie you little fatty? I strongly dislike fat kids. Security, please…

— Thom Yorke

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature…

— Michael Haneke

You can hear a real shift. You listen to the late 80s recordings, you'll hear us engaging with the audience, dealing with…

— Ian MacKaye

There are people who try to figure things out. Often, magic is presented in a way that sets up a challenge that…

— Ricky Jay

Let no preacher in a little church think that he has no audience for his message. An unseen audience of multitudes compass…

— John R. Rice

CNN lives in a cocoon, as do all the major media, in which they tell themselves every day that everybody watching agrees…

— Rush Limbaugh

Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies…

— Ira Sachs

Normally classical music is set up so you have professionals on a stage and a bunch of audience - it's us versus…

— David Lang

Anyone can do shock value. Develop enough tension and cue the music right, then have something jump out: It's almost impossible not…

— Daniel Myrick

No role is big or small; every character does its magic and brings its own connect with the audience.

— Angad Bedi

The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our…

— Dillon Burroughs

Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.

— Bo Burnham

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.

— Richard Ayoade

I'm a lot of things at once. I want my audience to choose the side they like most about me.

— Thalia

Slower television actually credits the audience with a higher level of intelligence.

— Tim Pigott-Smith

The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?

— Joan Jett

If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.

— Harvey Diamond

We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.

— Grace Chatto

An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything.

— Anthony Jeselnik

What makes an audience watch something and care about the characters is the emotional life of the characters.

— Jed Mercurio

I feel the life expectancy of a comedian is 30 seconds. If you don't hook an audience in half-a-minute, you're dead.

— Nipsey Russell

I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

— Edgar Ramirez

The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a…

— Fulton J. Sheen

If your work is really successful, it should attract the audience to you beyond just the premier.

— Poonam Dhillon

I've got an audience now. They found me. I didn't go looking for them. I feel my music brought them all in.

— Bugzy Malone