Audience Quotes · Page 35

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

— M. Night Shyamalan

Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

— Derek Luke

The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size…

— Brian May

Whenever it is inspired by literature a film is elevated and the audience connects.

— Saswata Chatterjee

I do not want my new works to be generated in a market or audience of any kind.

— Vincent Gallo

I want to build an audience that's willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.

— Bradford Cox

If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.

— Leon Russell

Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know…

— Edward Herrmann

At festivals, you have no time for proper soundchecks or indeed any soundcheck and often you have to win over an audience…

— Ellie Rowsell

I can't say what my greatest strength between acting and singing is...I'll leave that to the critics. Maybe my best strength is…

— Erica Schroeder

I want to communicate with people, and I want to make something that works, and that people like. I'm never purposefully trying…

— Joe Swanberg

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to…

— Michael Haneke

I love being in a room in front of an audience who cares about the music, who knows the music, and who…

— G-Eazy

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when…

— Paul Mazursky

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the…

— Billy Gardell

There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the…

— Tadanobu Asano

In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings…

— Marshall McLuhan

I think the joy of any soap opera is it is always there. You are allowed into this world for a little…

— Amanda Donohoe

In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't want to be too personal. If you are, then…

— Josh Turner

I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't…

— Mike Leigh

One time when I played Australia I had a death threat, and they tried to keep it from me, but I found…

— Liberace

There's a level of frustration and anger here in the United States that we're not prosecuting this war, and we're actually in…

— Stephen K. Bannon

Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, oncemore, they feel…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Now, with YouTube, the audience decides. You can make something that is 20 minutes long or one minute long.

— Jonas Akerlund

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by…

— William Mapother

If you're talking down to the audience, no matter how brutish it is, they know it and they hate you for it.

— Bernard Sahlins

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

— Eleanor Roosevelt

My style was always to put the audience in the driving seat, so they feel they're a part of the action.

— John Glen

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

— Kenneth Haigh

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

— Andy Richter

Demoralization of the target audience is yet another step in successful mind control.

— Joost Meerloo

It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.

— Henry Cavill

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

— Miguel

When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.

— Alexis Taylor

A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.

— Bruce Boxleitner

I don't care about anybody's perception of me except for the audience.

— Jay Mohr

The audience is already doing so much, so I don't make them work any harder.

— Boyd Holbrook

Whether you work with your family or someone from outside, you can't take the audience for granted.

— Varun Dhawan

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch…

— Frank Darabont