Audience Quotes · Page 99

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

— David Copperfield

I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it's getting.

— Barry Levinson

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

— Theodore Bikel

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

— Sylvester Stallone

There's a tremendous audience out there for popular music. It's a bigger audience than for movies.

— Robert Kardashian

People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

— Peter Morgan

If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.

— Michael Sheen

Being an entertainer includes knowing how to connect with an audience.

— Joe Nichols

Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word…

— Angie Brown

I have seen and heard comedians who had really funny 'stuff' but yet could not make the people laugh; then, again -…

— Al Jolson

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Sitting in the back row of a full audience watching one of my movies, and hearing them cry and hearing them laugh…

— Amma Asante

I want my audience to leave the theatre with positive emotions through this sensorial journey in the world of precious and fragile…

— Alante Kavaite

We did a lot right with the voters with whom we’ve enjoyed traditional support. But we haven’t done enough to build a…

— Kevin Madden

When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the…

— Joan Jett

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come,…

— David Heyman

I don't necessarily go out and try to do something that's going to be just something that will please the audience. I'm…

— Laurence Fishburne

As you get older, as a comedian, and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the…

— Patton Oswalt

I'm very proud of the work I do, but I genuinely can't involve myself with an audience as early as somebody who's…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be…

— Barbra Streisand

Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire…

— Wyndham Lewis

I wasn't able to articulate it until after audience members gave feedback. And then, similarly, when we talked about the bromance being…

— Steve Zissis

I'm not a network executive, but it seems to be a time when networks take more of a gamble with higher-concept shows.…

— James Wolk

And there are some - Bernie [Ecclestone] and others - who are embracing new technologies. When Sky UK started to broadcast there…

— Martin Sorrell

My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

— Cab Calloway

I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn't matter.

— Bipasha Basu

The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night.

— Elizabeth Marvel

Songs like "Spirit Carries On" really gets the audience moved and on the same page. It's challenging and all so much fun…

— John Petrucci

You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as…

— Donnie Wahlberg

If the audience never understands the plot, it can be counted on to be attentive to the very end.

— Benedetto Marcello

Today is tax day. A lot of people are hoping they get refunds. And that's just the folks here in the audience.

— David Letterman

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

— Ingrid Bergman

America has always been my biggest audience, so I'm putting a lot of faith in America.

— Boy George

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

— Bill Hicks

I think the whole thing is: If it makes sense in your head, the audience will go along with it.

— Domhnall Gleeson

If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

— Alexander Wang

I'm constantly looking for something that will be pushing the audience to new scares in horror movies.

— Roy Lee

“Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?”

— Anonymous

My strategy isn't just to get the biggest audience; it's to get a loyal audience.

— Lucas Cruikshank

When I go and make smaller films, I actually never think about them being made for a smaller audience.

— Jenny Slate