Audience Quotes

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.

I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.

Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.

I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.

There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.

Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience.

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

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

I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.

My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.