Audience Quotes · Page 98

It doesn't matter how many times the audience has heard it before. If it's funny, it's funny.

— Tommy Cooper

I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

— Chris Abani

I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.

— Barry Hannah

I think they will feel refreshed because I cater to a mature audience.

— Slick Rick

I don't like doing 25 songs. I think that just kills the audience. I think the show should be 17, 18, 19 songs and encores.

— Bun E. Carlos

For artists like me nothing matters more than the audience's respect.

— Johnny Lever

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

— Rajkumar Hirani

I like movies too much. I watch all kinds of films. In a way, all filmmakers are basically audience.

— Zoya Akhtar

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some…

— Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

“The audience may not like your work; if you are very sure of your work, don’t waste your time defending it, just…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

It probably does make it more difficult to enjoy a good laugh at someone who's onstage, seemingly yelling at you. But I'm…

— David Cross

In Berlin... it's important to present a concert that will change their ears... so if you present a Tchaikovsky symphony, you get…

— Jan Vogler

We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not,…

— Shawn Wayans

I find Washington audiences are basically the same as every other audience; they watch me and go, 'Who's idea was it to…

— Gilbert Gottfried

The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think…

— Chris Pratt

When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your…

— Rokia Traore

I learned acting by doing it. And although I had never taken an acting class, it didn't take long to learn how…

— Ron Vawter

Hearing your voice and your instrument kind of breathe in the room, it affects the way you perform the songs. For instance,…

— Denison Witmer

A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

I love dipping into worlds at a fast and furious pace. A little glimpse allows the audience to put together the rest…

— Jordan Peele

I don't want to spoon-feed the audience, like, "This is the funny guy, this is one you hate, this is the one…

— Fede Alvarez

“The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look…

— Chuck Palahniuk

In theater, it's just you and the audience. It's less of a popularity contest. It's just you and the audience, and they're…

— Rachel Dratch

The chance to tell personal, language-specific, culturally specific stories is really flourishing on TV and I think it's just the nature of…

— Matthew Weiner

Being a host is about being able to communicate and build up a rapport with the audience.

— Urmila Matondkar

Even if an episode is self-contained, the preceding episodes always affect how the audience takes it in.

— Hiro Murai

With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling.

— Nick Nolte

I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

— Ian Mckellen

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

— Edward Hall

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

— Zhang Yimou

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond…a good feeling about…

— Robert Pinsky

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are…

— Dick Wolf

There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.

— George Carlin

When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.

— Jennifer Damiano

If you can make an audience laugh, you can make them love any character.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

You can't abandon an audience you created, because people will find someone else.

— Raheem DeVaughn

I want to thank the audience of both the Telugu speaking states for standing by me throughout my journey.

— Allu Arjun

I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience's imagination.

— Sam Levinson

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

— Oscar Isaac

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

— William Landay