Audience Quotes · Page 66

I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.

— Stephen Hopkins

I like to acknowledge the audience. It seems foolish to pretend they're not there.

— Paterson Joseph

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

— Karl G. Maeser

You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

— Adam McKay

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good…

— L. Ron Hubbard

The audience must be sick to death of the star-crossed lovers from District 12. I know I am.

— Suzanne Collins

“From the writer's perspective, audience is always an act of the imagination.”

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to…

— Elia Kazan

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one.…

— Umberto Eco

MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to…

— Janet Jackson

The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You…

— Sanaa Lathan

All I can say is we love what we do, and the audience is still there for us. I think what's given…

— Rickey Medlocke

The only way to grab the attention of the audience is originality. We feed ourselves with franchises that's the opposite of what…

— Ron Perlman

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I like playing characters that have a prickly armor because when you start to see the cracks and some heart come out,…

— Matt Passmore

Don't make your audience play Jeopardy. Giving your answer before asking the question puts your audience at a disadvantage. It will also…

— John Fairclough

What I envy about musicians is, they have this more direct relationship with the audience. They don't have to go through words.…

— Jeff VanderMeer

I am sort of proud that I think radio has become a dominant influence in shaping public opinion. Good radio paints the…

— Rush Limbaugh

For me, the entire journey of Lost has been walking that fine line between discovering Sawyer's humanity and, yet, keeping his edge…

— Josh Holloway

I've been really lucky to spend some time around actors and artists I really admire. One thing I gathered from asking a…

— Jason Segel

There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been…

— Peggy Noonan

The only two TV shows I saw do that, where they don't warm them up and you can really bomb, was Saturday…

— Norm MacDonald

You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is…

— Chuck D

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

— Tallulah Bankhead

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

— Francesca Annis

When people enter any form of competition they need to be able to connect with the audience at home; that's what makes…

— Arlene Phillips

If your sleight of hand causes you to break eye contact with your audience, it is too advanced for your skill level.

— Jeff McBride

I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going…

— Gemma Arterton

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.

— Sara Shepard

I don't think majority of the audience associate Mohanlal with a creative, genius artiste; it's just that they see themselves in him.

— Priyadarshan

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

— Noah Wyle

If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.

— Mark Russell

A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to…

— Shannon L. Alder

It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

— Ray Romano

The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.

— Roger Mudd

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

— Ken Dodd

The audience loves when the comedian talks to them. You're creating inside jokes, which creates a community.

— Wendy Liebman

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

— Susan Sontag