Audience Quotes

I have this whole new audience now.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don't need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.

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.