Audience Quotes · Page 115

You sense when something is special, but you don't know how special it is until it's in front of an audience.

— Cynthia Erivo

It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.

— Ethan Coen

I mean my goal is to get Michael Richards to do stand up at the Laugh Factory to an all black audience.

— Daniel Tosh

I want to be in a space where, if I appear on the stage or the screen, the audience should not know…

— Pratik Gandhi

“It is not about being the loudest voice in the room; it’s about being the most genuine one.”

— Calvin Niles

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the…

— Tim Crouch

I cannot watch my performance as an audience because whenever I watch anything that I am a part of, I watch critically.

— Mithila Palkar

Times have changed. And as the audience changes, so do the superheroes.

— Neal Adams

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't…

— Richard Foreman

I like doing live stand-up because that's where I started. If you do TV and radio you just send it out into…

— Hugh Dennis

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American…

— Audra McDonald

I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who…

— James Taylor

My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat…

— Joe Rogan

When you start, it's not to do with the material so much. It's more to do with how you can control a…

— Noel Fielding

His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both…

— Lewis H. Lapham

There's this moment happening in our culture where the power of the audience and the influence that people of color have is…

— Elaine Welteroth

“If you simply present data, it’s easy for your audience to say, “Oh, that’s interesting,” and move on to the next thing.…

— Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

One of my friends who writes novels says that once the book is published, it's a separate thing from you; it becomes…

— Jill Talbot

I have a children's theater background, so I grew up performing for child audiences; it's sort of my specialty. I know the…

— Linda Woolverton

Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have…

— Marcel Proust

I wanted to make a film about anorexia. I thought about it for a long time, but then gave up on this…

— Malgorzata Szumowska

Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it's much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It's much more interesting…

— Michael Fassbender

You're in a movie, so you have to think about how something plays. It's not like you're thinking about how an audience…

— Julianne Moore

When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it.…

— David Tennant

I don't want to monitor my audience too closely, as that can really drive you crazy.

— Bo Burnham

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

— Robert Bly

The adrenaline of performing live in front of an audience is a feeling that's hard to replicate.

— Jim Ross

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

— Liev Schreiber

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

— Adam McKay

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

— Randal Marlin

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

— Jan de Bont

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

— Lyle Lovett

If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being…

— Ian Mckellen

Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.

— John Oliver

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

— Albert Brooks

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.

— Kevin Spacey

There are a lot of pretty actresses in Hollywood who try to act tough, and the audience laughs.

— Patty Jenkins

The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.

— Al Hirschfeld

To have a simultaneous global audience as an artist is more than you could ever hope for.

— Dee Rees

To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.

— Alexis Taylor