Audience Quotes · Page 36

Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day.…

— Clotilde Hesme

To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much.

— Jonathan Levine

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to…

— Christian Bale

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience

— Anonymous

You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.

— Frank Spotnitz

Listening to your own sets and listening to the audience as you perform. It's a conversation of sorts. There is an exchange.

— Ted Alexandro

Theatre has a strong connect with the audience and gratifies me as an actor, but the canvas of films is huge!

— Paresh Rawal

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

— Nicolas Cage

I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic…

— Ted Danson

You can't wait forever for an audience to get the joke, but you should give them at least two seconds to join…

— Franklyn Ajaye

If people are talking about my weight cut all the time and are telling me how skinny I like, you have to…

— Jonathan Tucker

Don’t just create content to get credit for being clever — create content that will be helpful, insightful, or interesting for your…

— David Ogilvy

Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a…

— Ann Miller

If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if…

— Pauline Kael

Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems dont belong to my fans.…

— Koko Taylor

I remember quite well that 10,000 audience sang with us three on the spot, and ever since then, I always thought the…

— Luciano Pavarotti

One thing I've learned is that the audience not only wants to be talked to but they also like to talk back.…

— Jonathan Coulton

At the end of the day, I think that music lovers are going to love me. I think the pop songs that…

— Chrisette Michele

The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry,…

— Brian Cox

And I think that’s a lot of the reason why when you start to fragment your audience, you start to think about…

— danah boyd

In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or…

— Roger Ebert

A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature…

— Edward Albee

Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play…

— Martin Landau

Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach…

— Jason Reitman

I think if you find that you're making a judgment on the character, than your audience will make a judgment on the…

— Michelle Monaghan

I feel happy to play strong women because, as an audience member, I feel such characters inspire women when they are down.

— Aishwarya Lekshmi

I always wanted to act. To be with my friends. To share something with the audience about the human condition.

— Jason Robards

I hate a sleepy, nonresponsive, and silent audience because it fails to excite me as a performer.

— Asha Bhosle

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and it's a brand new audience for me.

— Kevin Spacey

My South Indian audience matters to me a lot, so I like when they watch my Bollywood films. It feels great.

— Shruti Haasan

It is well documented that Fox News has the audience demographics that other networks thirst for.

— Harris Faulkner

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

— Dorothy Sarnoff

“My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.”

— Caroline Green

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

— Richard Foreman

I like the feeling of keeping people off-balance and having the audience not knowing where I'm coming from or keeping that mysterious.

— Hiro Murai

The best compliment for a director is that an audience hates their films.

— Udo Kier

I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.

— Thomas Jane

Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?

— Joshua Oppenheimer

For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a…

— Jenny Eclair

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

— George Clooney