Audience Quotes

The support that we have from the network in terms of watching us at an unusual time in the year and playing our episodes three times in a given week until we built an audience... is exceptional.

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.

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.