Audience Quotes

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

The audience that surprised us the most was definitely Paris, when we played there last. They were just incredibly into us and we weren't expecting it at all.

I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.

The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

Never stop listening to your audience.

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

It's up to the audience. It always has been.

There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.

What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.

A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.

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

We need more extreme movies in Sweden.Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

I've always been switching around the show to accommodate the audience, and you know it really makes it a lot more fun for me and keeps it fresh so that I'm not complacent with the same show every night and with every audience.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.