Audience Quotes

3330 Audience quotes by 2285 unique authors

I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a line... I like… — George Carlin
I've never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I'm pretty concerned, I'm pretty much thinking about the show. I… — Elvis Presley
The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself. — Wes Craven
Of course, it's a great joy to be able to perform. And that love affair with an audience, where you give love and they give… — Unknown Author
...it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to… — Al Gore
And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience. — Juice Newton
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around… — E. M. Forster
Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a nobody.… — Ian Kershaw
[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style… — Susan Sontag
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not. — Edward Albee
Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are. — Rod Serling
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. — Andre Simon
I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience,… — Ree Drummond
The first time I can remember being on a stage in front of an audience was one that came with triumph, adrenaline and a childlike… — Corey Taylor
Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in delightful fantasies that… — Eric Hiscock
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write… — Harlan Ellison
If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want… — Andrei Tarkovsky
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly… — Mark Twain
I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose… — Lionel Shriver
Not to have an audience is a kind of death. — Tillie Olsen
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined… — John Steinbeck
Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you… — Mike Tyson
And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first of all, with… — Jerry Uelsmann
He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea. — Mark Twain

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