Audience Quotes · Page 65

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

— David Ives

“All literature and popular art contain themes that resonate with the audience.”

— Daniel Lambert

I really interact with the audiences. I make the audience part of the show. It's just a fun time.

— Steve Harwell

Being an opener is all about warming up the audience for the main band. That is always fun, pretty easy; there isn't…

— Tristan Prettyman

I work for the director, and if audience are happy, I have gotten my award. After that, I have to move on.

— Manoj Bajpayee

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

— Andy Stanley

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to…

— Al Gore

Occasionally I'll just pull out a rifle and shoot one of my audience members. So far there have been no complaints filed.

— Thom Yorke

I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment. From a filmmaker's standpoint,…

— Todd Haynes

I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone.…

— Jim Varney

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able…

— Hayden Christensen

There is a method to the madness of James Patterson's success. Co-writing with him is a terrific learning experience, particularly in the…

— Ashwin Sanghi

if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested…

— Elizabeth Kostova

The exercise in theater is night after night you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore. It…

— Julia Stiles

I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be…

— Jay Roach

Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that…

— John Cusack

During the process of writing the book, I had this experience that was telling for me. I got it and the basic…

— Valerie Estelle Frankel

Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts…

— A. O. Scott

We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own…

— Keith Richards

People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry…

— Rae Armantrout

The one thing that I love about the live audience is the energy level. Like, from the minute of cast introductions, it's…

— Jonathan Sadowski

Ever since my mother sent me to Saturday morning grammar classes when I was 7, I wanted to become a famous actor.…

— Jack Gleeson

What I love most about playing in front of people has something to do with a certain kind of energy exchange. The…

— Nils Frahm

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

— Yann Martel

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as…

— Crispin Glover

I'm glad there's been so much laughter in the audience tonight." "But they're not laughing with you. They're laughing at you.

— Terry Wogan

Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.

— Jay Heinrichs

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.

— Richard Marx

Our job, as actors, is not to tell the audience how interesting we are, but to entertain them with our films.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

It's insanely difficult to ask an audience to go somewhere other than YouTube to watch videos.

— Grace Helbig

I know awards give great responsibilities and audience will certainly expect more from you.

— Shweta Menon

Those series from the '70s and '80s with a studio audience are dead.

— Eddie Griffin

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

— Bernie Mac

The audience applauded, even though it was not clear what Bush meant.

— Peter Wallsten

I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.

— Paul Haggis

What I do isn't like 'The Sixth Sense,' I don't see dead people walking around when I'm sitting and looking at an…

— Tyler Henry

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

— Bruce Springsteen

“Where were they—oh, right. The kitchen. In the Audience House. He had come in the back. So he could come…in the back.”

— J.R. Ward

I turn down about 85 per cent of sponsorship deals, because if it's a product like toilet cleaner, why would my audience care?

— Joe Sugg