Audience Quotes

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

Engaging with the audience lets them know I'm approachable. I don't like that whole, 'You can't talk to Sheila E thing' - I don't like that.

My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities.

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.

When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.

Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.

I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience.

The running across the field thing, that was the first scene we shot in the movie. We asked the audience to stay for the scene, and 37,000 people stayed.

I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.

I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.

So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.

I do not want my new works to be generated in a market or audience of any kind.

Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.

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

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

I think the audience is pretty intelligent.

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

I need space between me and the audience - and the more space the better.

The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.

I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

I don't mind about the boos from the audience.

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.

Bollywood actors are so set in what they want, and the way they want it. And why shouldn't they be? But it is not the same in Hollywood, because the love of the audience is not the same.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.

When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.

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

If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

I was playing catch with the European audience.

With us, it's a very specific audience. If you like steak, this is it for you.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.

I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

You've got to write for your audience.

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

I have this whole new audience now.

You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.