Audience Quotes · Page 40

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

— George Bernard Shaw

The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out.

— Val Kilmer

It's about the audience - if they laugh and clap, you feed off that, and if they don't, you doubt everything you've…

— Tim Minchin

The most charming thing about theatre is that you get an instant reaction from the audience.

— Supriya Pathak

Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.

— Cinda Williams Chima

I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of…

— Willard Scott

sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

— Shelley Winters

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

— Rian Johnson

“Having an audience can clarify thinking. It’s easy to win an argument inside your head. But when you face a real audience,…

— Anonymous

Watching a movie with an audience is so exciting. For me, coming from TV, you finish an episode and then it airs,…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

I've skated after Yuzu a handful of times. The only thing I can take away from it is to be prepared for…

— Nathan Chen

I like joking around and being a little mischievous. Once an audience or even a group of friends realizes that you're being…

— Reggie Watts

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to…

— Julia Stiles

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs…

— Michael Gira

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a…

— Yahoo Serious

That's one of the things about comedy that annoys me the most from a comedian perspective. Comedy has gotten so segregated. Now…

— Michael Che

When I came on board, it was halfway through his [Frank Sinatra] 72nd year, and when he did his last show he…

— Frank Sinatra, Jr

When technology is used as a gimmick it can be a terrible distraction. The trick is to harness technology in a way…

— Andrew Morse

There's something I really like about network TV. You have this humongous audience, tens of millions of people, and you really can…

— Patricia Arquette

I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very…

— Annie Baker

The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes…

— Nick Blaemire

I'm going to be cremated from the neck down. And at my funeral, when people are talking about me, they have to…

— Daniel Tosh

As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago…

— Michael Mann

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

— Mary McCormack

Forget about acquiring new people. If you service your audience they will get you new fans.

— Bob Lefsetz

From fear to bonding with the audience to getting more open - that's what standup is. It humanises you.

— Maysoon Zayid

I pretty much believe that a film is a film and when an audience watches a film, they finish it.

— Mike Mills

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

— Oscar Wilde

I'm a fan of using all forms of media to attract the widest audience.

— Ryan Serhant

I learned so much from just creating something from scratch and seeing it in front of an audience.

— Stephen Schwartz

Pass a lot, use some reverses and toss in a gadget play once in a while for the TV audience. None of…

— Lee Corso

Son-In-Law was kind of my crossover. It was the movie that brought me out of the MTV audience into the mainstream.

— Pauly Shore

Hindi films are not made for critics, it is made for worldwide Hindi film watching audience.

— Sajid Khan

You can never predict what an audience is going to respond to and what they're going to watch.

— Josh Lawson

I don't want to play the same character again and again, because I'd get bored. If I get bored, so will the…

— Radhika Madan

“Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?”

— Anonymous

If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

— Alexander Wang

I'm constantly looking for something that will be pushing the audience to new scares in horror movies.

— Roy Lee

I think the whole thing is: If it makes sense in your head, the audience will go along with it.

— Domhnall Gleeson