Audience Quotes · Page 81

I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the…

— Martha Graham

I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.

— Miranda Lambert

Going on the road and having love from the audience is something that you'll never be able to buy.

— Adore Delano

Any musician will tell you they have played for free just because they wanted an audience and a chance to play.

— Johnny Paycheck

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

— Simon Cowell

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

— Chris Blackwell

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

— Christopher Hitchens

I always wanted to reach pan-India audience, and 'Avane' is my first step towards it.

— Rakshit Shetty

There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I…

— Michael Stipe

When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

As minorities, it is always our dream to merge our cultures and showcase to the world the talent that comes from both…

— Emilio Estefan

I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take…

— Dweezil Zappa

You look at John Travolta in 'Pulp Fiction', you look at Donnie Wahlberg in 'The Sixth Sense.' People have liens against them…

— Seth Green

I'm the audience first, and if you're gonna be a great performer, you need to be a great audience. So, I do…

— Shelby Lynne

Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience:…

— Charles Stross

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all…

— Richard M. Nixon

If you're a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it's a street corner or a…

— Jason Mraz

I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the…

— Brian Lindstrom

As for the differences between audio and the printed page, the sonic aspects of poetry are important to me. I read my…

— Rae Armantrout

I followed a girl I met in Japan to Los Angeles and ended up working in a motorcycle store. I quit the…

— Norman Reedus

I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of…

— Tilda Swinton

Breaking new factual ground is not what Zeitgeist is about, however. Rather, the video is a powerful and fast-acting dose of agitprop,…

— Jay Kinney

I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do…

— Don Rickles

Period films to me are very often alienating to the audience. There's very often a formality. A staunchy quality to them that…

— Christopher Nolan

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.

— Kevin Spacey

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

— James Blunt

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

— Manuel Puig

I love audiences. They are my oxygen. I only breathe with audience. When I'm alone, I am normally a miserable you-know-what.

— Charo

If a hit song comes on in a theater, the mass audience get so excited they throw money, just out of excitement.

— Bhushan Kumar

Live audiences love me because I'm singing and actually am able to f**k with people live over the mic.

— Willam Belli

I feel you lose your audience when you make movies for others and not for yourself or your people.

— Vetrimaaran

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

— Michael Eric Dyson

I do an improv show on Sunday where we have a class, and then afterwards we go and do a live performance…

— Nolan Gould

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

— Roland Joffe

I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like.

— Tim Curry

The only pressure on me is that I should never disappoint my audience.

— Sajid Khan

But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.

— Mose Allison

I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.

— Steven Spielberg

That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

— Kerry Washington

If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

— Anonymous