Audience Quotes - page 2

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences. (Walter Hill)

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

Alan Rickman

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Frank Capra

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

George Will

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; that constitute his ideal audience and his better self.

Richard Wilbur

I can't imagine working without and audience.

Beatrice Arthur

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

Tina Fey

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

Fanny Brice

Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.

V. S. Pritchett

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

Arthur Sullivan

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me. (Pete Seeger)

Hysteria is impossible without an audience.

Chuck Palahniuk

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

Alice Cooper

When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.

Howard Stern

What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.

Jacques Attali

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

Tristan Bernard

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

Frank Sinatra

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.

Karl Kraus

I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That's a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that.

Ellen DeGeneres

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.

Martha Graham

I've developed an audience over the years and I don't want to loose them. (George Duke)

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

Rabindranath Tagore

Tonight I appear for the first time before a Boston audience -- 4000 critics.

Mark Twain

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

Gustav Mahler

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

Robert Orben

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