Audience Quotes

I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying to entertain them for two hours. Thankfully, I only think about that right before we go on, and then once we're out there, everything's fine.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

I'd say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band.

You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.

I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either.

I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.

You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.

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.

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

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.

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.