Audience Quotes · Page 51

Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

— Adam McKay

I've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.

— Bette Midler

I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.

— Young Jean Lee

I was always proud on 'Party of Five'. We never had the biggest audience, but we had arguably the most loyal.

— Scott Wolf

The last thing on earth I wanted to do was make a movie that plays directly to a sort-of frat boy audience,…

— Panos Cosmatos

T20 is fast-paced and a wonderful vehicle to attract wider audience. On a technical level, it probably has impacted Test cricket.

— Isa Guha

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

— Tristan Bernard

In South India, the audience is more traditional than the Bollywood cine-goers.

— Priyamani

Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We…

— Marion Ross

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

My whole family was in 'Into the West' as a pioneer family; they're in the audience in 'The Great Debaters.' My family's…

— Glen Powell

I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic…

— Evgeni Plushenko

Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such…

— Jeremy Bolt

Feel the power of your legs, hear the orchestra playing, see the audience - anything to make the image more real. The…

— Linda Hamilton

I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me…

— Peter Cushing

It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will…

— Wayne Coyne

There's a bit of a difference in the way he sounds. Samuel E. Wright lent his voice and personality to the animated…

— Tituss Burgess

The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm,…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

I believe that if a child has a feel for writing and wants to write, there is an audience. Children should just…

— Jean Craighead George

This not a criticism of [Mitt] Romney; please don't anybody call him up and say I'm ripping him. I'm not. I'm simply…

— Rush Limbaugh

We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The consumption of alcohol is increasing among youth. Targeting young audiences, advertisers portray beer and wine as joyful, socially desirable, and harmless.…

— Dallin H. Oaks

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who…

— Richard Wilbur

I love watching audiences scream. I imagine it's the same joy that a director feels who has made a comedy when he…

— Leigh Whannell

There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use.

— Eugene Schwartz

I love those kinds of parts that don't seem to be huge but they really strike a chord with the audience.

— Mariette Hartley

Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

— Tom Stoppard

I'd rather do smaller theaters, because it's more fun for the audience and more fun for me. I like to build up…

— Noel Fielding

The Young Bucks do a good amount of winking at their audience and you can argue whether that's good or bad.

— Josh Barnett

I've been asked repeatedly what the 'key' to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep…

— Maureen Stapleton

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

— Anthony Giddens

I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.

— Neil Diamond

If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately…

— Jim Henson

In my songs, I try to look through someone else's eyes, and I want to give the audience a feeling more than…

— John Prine

With television, you rarely get a response. You don't have an audience that you're in front of.

— Christopher Jackson

I like working with people who respect the intelligence of their audience.

— Graham Linehan

When I watch a film, I watch only as an audience and only later I might analyse it.

— Nandita Das

I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.

— James Wan

A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.

— Fred Allen

I'm not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them

— Tyra Banks