Audience Quotes

When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we've been able to do that.

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

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.

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

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