Audience Quotes
3330 Audience quotes by 2285 unique authors
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If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
— Tom Petty
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them…
— Alfred Hitchcock
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Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great…
— Art Buchwald
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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one…
— Judith Martin
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The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical…
— Thomas Love Peacock
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I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it…
— Pat Conroy
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Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it…
— David Carradine
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Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
— John Green
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I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
— Dick Cavett
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Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience,…
— Lenny Bruce
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With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience…
— Harrison Ford
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It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and inclinations of the…
— Neil Postman
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The response of teenagers to their idols is relevant. As an audience, they enjoy themselves, not by screaming with laughter, but screaming with screams.
— Desmond Morris
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I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my…
— Paula Cole
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One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.
— William Safire
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I know that the internet has helped a new world audience find me.
— Wynonna Judd
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The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.
— Robert Ludlum
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The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.
— Marlo Thomas
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My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in…
— Steven Moffat
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
— Igor Stravinsky
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Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the…
— Jane Haddam
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There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has…
— William Howard Taft
Who Wrote These Audience Quotes
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