Audience Quotes · Page 46

The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?

— Joan Jett

I'm a lot of things at once. I want my audience to choose the side they like most about me.

— Thalia

Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.

— Bo Burnham

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.

— Richard Ayoade

I've got an audience now. They found me. I didn't go looking for them. I feel my music brought them all in.

— Bugzy Malone

The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a…

— Fulton J. Sheen

If your work is really successful, it should attract the audience to you beyond just the premier.

— Poonam Dhillon

I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

— Edgar Ramirez

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave…

— Rosalind Russell

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent…

— William Petersen

A lot of times, if you watch sign language interpreters, there can be some lag time issues. When that happens, I think…

— Jack Jason

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the…

— Cate Blanchett

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage…

— Jane Alexander

I feel like when you tell people's real-life stories prior to them getting introduced to the audience, people have that connection, kind…

— Darby Allin

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an…

— John Philip Sousa

I was attracted to filmmaking in college because of my love of storytelling. You can have such an impact and reach a…

— Rory Kennedy

I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will…

— Alan Bennett

My job is to put on a great performance. Every time I step in the ring, my job is to perform at…

— Anthony Macias

I have never seen any of my work, I can't watch it because I am ultra critical. We all have little mannerisms…

— Josh Peck

When we think about making the people in the audience happy, or trying to make them feel something, it kind of goes…

— Scott Moir

Perhaps the bands emerging nowadays don't have the right context around them to help them grow. We were born at the right…

— Joselo Rangel

Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an officially supported and popularly…

— George Fetherling

I still don't really know what my style is. I like a lot of different kinds of comedy, I like watching it…

— Bonnie McFarlane

In my 20s, I was more cynical/despairing (even though I still wrote comically), but I often sent audiences home with rather dark…

— Christopher Durang

What makes an audience watch something and care about the characters is the emotional life of the characters.

— Jed Mercurio

I feel the life expectancy of a comedian is 30 seconds. If you don't hook an audience in half-a-minute, you're dead.

— Nipsey Russell

I never plan my speech. Very often the audience triggers me into the mood.

— Balachandra Menon

If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.

— Barry McGee

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get…

— Kevin James

The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience…

— Lorna Luft

In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.

— Ajay Devgan

I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience.

— Christina Baker Kline

Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.

— Shelley Berman

I do films because there is an audience out there. It doesn't matter if they're Indian, American, or European.

— Radhika Apte

There's nothing better than looking out into the audience and having a whole sea of glowsticks staring back at you.

— James Righton

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

— Conrad Hall

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

— William Friedkin

When you try and flip a guy from heel to baby face, the audience gets confused.

— Arn Anderson

“searching, revealing nothing. A few heads in the audience turn to me, wondering who could possibly have upset the equilibrium of the”

— Greg Iles

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you…

— Rokia Traore