Audience Quotes

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.

I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don't get nervous, you know?

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

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

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests.

You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time.

That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?

I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.