Audience Quotes · Page 42

I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience's imagination.

— Sam Levinson

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

— William Landay

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

— Oscar Isaac

I want to thank the audience of both the Telugu speaking states for standing by me throughout my journey.

— Allu Arjun

I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it's getting.

— Barry Levinson

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

— David Copperfield

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are…

— Dick Wolf

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

— Edward Hall

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my…

— Ted Danson

I don't like the theatre. I like plays in which the audience is addressed by the actors. I don't like seeing people…

— Jonathan Meades

If I was just allowed to talk and handle the whole thing by myself without the audience interrupting with laughter, the show…

— Hari Kondabolu

I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all…

— Nina Simone

If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to…

— Matt Damon

My audience has accepted me for a long time as, you know, not a fat comedian but a comedian who happens to…

— Ralphie May

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect…

— Beau Bridges

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches…

— Kenneth Branagh

If you tell the reader it's funny, then the audience is like an audience at a stand-up comedy club and they expect…

— Dave Barry

A key part of helping startups is providing them with a G/SCORE that measures a company on the path to sustainability. We…

— Chris Shipley

I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it…

— Arthur Rubinstein

You discover over time that music can be overwhelming. Unless the musicians involved understand this they can lose audiences. Spontaneity and improvisation…

— Bennie Maupin

As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn't have to do…

— Drew Goddard

It would take more than long-stemmed roses to change my view that you're a despicable cowardy custard and a disgrace to a…

— Anonymous

Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in…

— Henry Giroux

The first splurge of creativity is kind of free, and the last 30 percent is painstakingly hard work, but it's good to…

— Andrew Bird

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

— Zhang Yimou

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond…a good feeling about…

— Robert Pinsky

I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

— Ian Mckellen

You can't abandon an audience you created, because people will find someone else.

— Raheem DeVaughn

When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.

— Jennifer Damiano

If you can make an audience laugh, you can make them love any character.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.

— George Carlin

If the audience never understands the plot, it can be counted on to be attentive to the very end.

— Benedetto Marcello

Today is tax day. A lot of people are hoping they get refunds. And that's just the folks here in the audience.

— David Letterman

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

— Ingrid Bergman

The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night.

— Elizabeth Marvel

Songs like "Spirit Carries On" really gets the audience moved and on the same page. It's challenging and all so much fun…

— John Petrucci

You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as…

— Donnie Wahlberg

My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

— Cab Calloway

I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn't matter.

— Bipasha Basu

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

— Bill Hicks