Audience Quotes

I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.

Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

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.

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.

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.