Audience Quotes · Page 34

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

— John Lasseter

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

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones

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

— Tristan Bernard

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

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

— Dorothy Fields

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

— Frank Capra

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a…

— Marina Abramovic

I have a very healthy growth of both head and facial hair. People always want to attribute further superhuman powers to me.…

— Nick Offerman

I've seen a lot of Pearl Jam shows, and the only reaction I've ever seen is the audience being completely supportive and…

— Chris Cornell

In a life where you are oppressed and not listened to, and told to sit in the corner and shut up, which…

— Paterson Joseph

I think I'm not uber into the comedy scene, but I love to laugh, especially in our business, where you're always front…

— John Cena

The commercial I did for Kia was hilarious and unexpected, so that, I think, is also another way of signaling to the…

— Laurence Fishburne

We say that we are the guinea pigs of our experiment, we are doing things on ourselves, and if the audience can…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to…

— James Frain

“Or take this girl, for example. At a meeting just outside Paris, a fifteen-year-old girl came up to me and said that…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary…

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

It wasn't that people wanted things for free and asked for advertising to fund it - it's that these companies wanted to…

— Astra Taylor

Sometimes you can do certain things on stage, or even in a TV series, and people see the look on your face…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I…

— Neil Diamond

If the audience is responding very well to comedians that are hacks, and I don't do well, I don't feel as bad,…

— Janeane Garofalo

[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.…

— Susan Sontag

The male intimacy and raw honesty was already developing on the page 'Oscillate Wildly' with these characters. Being explicit would not only…

— Travis Mathews

If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.

— Norman Granz

Every comedian feels out an audience. As you're telling jokes, if they're not laughing at this, you change the subject.

— Jackie Mason

I don't know what an audience wants to see but I know what I like to see.

— Paul Guilfoyle

Stop thinking about the audience and what they may be thinking of your music. Just play the music.

— Philip Toshio Sudo

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

— Sinead O'Connor

I'm bored by repeating myself, and I would imagine that an audience would be bored by me repeating myself.

— John C. Reilly

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

— Julia Bacha

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

— Mark Morris

Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

— Noah Wyle

“Concentrate on the pearls, the information your audience needs to know.”

— Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

We deliberately chose a small theatre so that the show was still intimate and the audience would become a part of the…

— Kate Bush

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

— Sandra Bullock

In sports entertainment, you can take your time and digest what's going on along with the audience.

— Shayna Baszler

I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.

— Patrick Warburton

If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.

— Gaspard Ulliel

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