Audience Quotes · Page 56

“If you have any talent at all it is far better to move your audience than amaze them.”

— Segovia Andre

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.

— Randy Pausch

I make films to explore concepts and raise questions, not tell the audience what to think.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I feel happy that the audience are waiting to watch a movie like 'Masaan' and are accepting off-beat movies.

— Sanjay Mishra

Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes and I see many of them in the audience here today.

— Barack Obama

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute --…

— Ken Dodd

But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.

— Gene Wilder

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.

— Leslie Stephen

he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more…

— Anonymous

I've always loved [Elsa Dorfman] work. I've loved her and her work is so much an expression of her. One of the…

— Errol Morris

We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show.…

— Dick Van Dyke

But I think whenever you're bringing in a new Doctor, you have to set it up in a really great way because…

— Chris Chibnall

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the…

— Tom Hanks

There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience…

— James Cagney

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes…

— Thalia

In order to have a lasting career you'll need to spend time performing live to build your own audience, as it's not…

— Eliot Lewis

My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not…

— Padma Subrahmanyam

When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If…

— Salman Rushdie

Women became almost our bigger audience. Teenage girls went crazy for my movie. I saw it. I went to theatres all over…

— Eli Roth

An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor…

— Rob Minkoff

You have to realize that people who bother to log on to anything and talk about a television show is a very…

— Ronald D. Moore

When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to…

— Prince

To be honest with you, I don't know how even to articulate it at this point, because sometimes the real difference in…

— Steve Zissis

I quickly said that because of my loyalty to Star Trek, and also just being a fan, I wouldn’t even want to…

— J. J. Abrams

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

— Alan Rickman

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.

— David Mamet

I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have, and I never will.

— Jerry Lewis

You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience.

— Lindsey Buckingham

I have fear of the audience and I am responsible for the scenes involving me, be it as a comedian or hero.

— Karunas

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

— Anonymous

You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side…

— Anna Kendrick

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to

— Michael Bolton

My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.

— Steve Earle

People don't know where to place me, and I think that's why my audience is so big.

— Ralphie May

London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.

— Laura Mvula

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

— John Astin

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

— David Mamet

I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.

— Jason Alexander

When I have an evening out I like to see big musicals where the whole audience is encouraged to giddy up out…

— Graeme Souness

Sometimes the person furthest away from the audience doesn't connect with them as much.

— Alex Horne