Audience Quotes

Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.

The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.