Audience famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.
-- Adam Carolla -
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
-- Adam McKay -
I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.
-- Adam Sandler -
I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.
-- Adele -
In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.
-- Ajay Devgan -
When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
-- Al Yankovic -
Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.
-- Alan Ayckbourn -
I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.
-- Alan Rickman -
If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
-- Albert Brooks -
Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.
-- Aleksey Igudesman -
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
-- Alexander Payne -
If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.
-- Alexander Wang -
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.
-- Alice Cooper -
I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.
-- Amanda Palmer -
The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.
-- Andre Kostelanetz -
Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.
-- Andrew Scott -
When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.
-- Andy Kaufman -
If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.
-- Andy Richter -
Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.
-- Angela Kinsey -
You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.
-- Anna Held -
Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
-- Anna Held -
If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.
-- Anne Lamott -
On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
-- Anthony Quinn -
The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.
-- Aries Spears -
I think - no, I'm sure - 'Coast to Coast' wouldn't work with a daytime audience.
-- Art Bell -
Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.
-- Barry Pepper -
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star.
-- Billy Bob Thornton -
Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
-- Billy Connolly -
I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time.
-- Black Francis -
I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.
-- Bo Burnham -
Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.
-- Bob Fosse -
In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.
-- Bobby Farrelly -
The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.
-- Bobby McFerrin -
All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too
-- Brendan Fraser -
I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react.
-- Brett Ratner -
I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
-- Brian Eno -
Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.
-- Bruce Forsyth -
I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.
-- Bruce Hornsby -
Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.
-- Bruce Paltrow -
I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.
-- Carter Burwell -
How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
-- Carter Burwell -
If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.
-- Casey Kasem -
Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.
-- Charles Bronson -
I was playing catch with the European audience.
-- Charles Olson -
I don't want to go too far away from what I'm doing now because that would alienate my audience.
-- Charlotte Church -
I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.
-- Charlton Heston -
I'm able to reach a wider audience, an older audience. I can gladly say that I'm definitely not a bubblegum princess anymore.
-- Cher Lloyd -
I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.
-- Chita Rivera -
American audiences are affected by what the English people think.
-- Chita Rivera -
My audience is much more center right, or centrist.
-- Chris Matthews -
When I do something good, the audience lets me know immediately. They laugh. That's it.
-- Chris Rock -
I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.
-- Christopher Nolan -
Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.
-- Claudette Colbert -
For me, once the film is out, it belongs to the audience, and I have to be open to any reaction that comes from it.
-- Claudia Llosa -
Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.
-- Conrad Hall -
You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.
-- Cornelia Parker -
The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.
-- Cyril Cusack -
I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
-- Dan Fogler -
This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.
-- Dario Argento -
I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.
-- Dario Argento -
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
-- Dario Argento -
Audiences are not easily fooled, but they are easily confused.
-- Darwin Ortiz -
When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.
-- Dave Van Ronk -
You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.
-- David Ayer -
I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.
-- David Bowie -
I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
-- David Cassidy -
My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
-- David Cassidy -
The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.
-- David Copperfield -
Lasse [Hallström] is really good at emotionally engaging an audience without hitting them over the face with it.
-- David Lyons -
Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.
-- David Oyelowo -
When you sell a product or service, you're making a promise to your audience. If you don't understand your audience, you'll never be able to keep that promise and you'll ultimately let them down.
-- Daymond John -
When the movie's on, I usually watch more of the audience.
-- Devon Sawa -
An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
-- Don Van Vliet -
Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
-- Dorothy Parker -
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
-- Dorothy Sarnoff -
Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
-- Douglas Coupland -
If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
-- Eberhard Weber -
I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
-- Eddy Arnold -
I'm always aware of who my core audiences are and I serve that niche.
-- Edward Burns -
Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.
-- Elaine Stritch -
I love audiences. My God, the best friends in the world!
-- Elaine Stritch -
There’s nothing more emotional than looking out at an audience and knowing they’re there because they understand.
-- Elena Tonra -
I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.
-- Elizabeth Olsen -
The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.
-- Emanuel Ax -
If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.
-- Emanuel Ax