Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not. Votes: 3
Barry PepperInside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience. Votes: 3
Shelley BermanUltimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot. Votes: 3
Jim SteinmeyerThere's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate. Votes: 3
Seth GreenCondense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeople wrestle alligators but not once has someone done it without an audience. Votes: 3
Doug StanhopeYou don't necessarily need expensive gear or giant budgets to reach an audience. Votes: 3
Tony ViscontiI don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature. Votes: 3
Susan SontagGenre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience. Votes: 3
Walter Jon WilliamsThe church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers Votes: 3
David PlattI actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies. Votes: 3
Samuel L. JacksonSo much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians. Votes: 3
Branford MarsalisIt isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience. Votes: 3
Lawana BlackwellAudience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience. Votes: 3
Amit KalantriMy movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience. Votes: 3
Patrice LeconteI love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience. Votes: 3
Patrick WilsonIt's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it. Votes: 3
Elizabeth OlsenI feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine. Votes: 3
Roger WatersYou always dream of being part of a show that reaches and thrills an audience. Votes: 3
Nikolaj Coster-WaldauI love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces. Votes: 3
Shannon MillerSometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience. Votes: 3
R. C. SproulThe reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it. Votes: 3
Paul WeyrichHow does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me. Votes: 3
Carter BurwellIt's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser. Votes: 3
Ethan CoenHe could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea. Votes: 3
Mark TwainI think any time you can go after an audience that isn't built in, that's the job. Votes: 3
Jon BernthalWhen I watch a film, I watch only as an audience and only later I might analyse it. Votes: 3
Nandita DasPop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts. Votes: 2
Sir Mix-a-LotIf you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience. Votes: 2
Norbert Leo ButzYou don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances. Votes: 0
Peter Maxwell DaviesNews media stimulate bubbles, since stories about them boost their audience. Votes: 0
Robert J. ShillerFast fashion communicates to a different audience, to a younger audience. Votes: 0
Thakoon PanichgulHollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience. Votes: 0
Muriel RukeyserI don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs. Votes: 0
Tony BennettAudience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage Votes: 0
David Lee RothMake sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. Votes: 0
Dorothy SarnoffWhen the audience isn't laughing, that doesn't mean that they're not fascinated. Votes: 0
Susan MessingOur basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above. Votes: 0
Paul DesmondIn some sense, Comedy Central has made their audience into comedy connoisseurs. Votes: 0
Mike BirbigliaThere's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience. Votes: 0
Will PackerIf you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything. Votes: 0
Judy HollidayYou have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell? Votes: 0
Jenkin Lloyd JonesI work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation. Votes: 0
Denzel WashingtonIt's impossible for me to play a part without thinking about the audience. Votes: 0
Christopher WalkenThe best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. Votes: 0
Alben W. BarkleyDemoralization of the target audience is yet another step in successful mind control. Votes: 0
Joost MeerlooPersonal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message. Votes: 0
Nancy DuarteI try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. Votes: 0
Mike LeighThe audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense. Votes: 0
Baron VaughnWhen the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Votes: 0
Stephen SondheimLike every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible. Votes: 0
Michael HanekeI'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible. Votes: 0
Lesley GarrettI don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience. Votes: 0
Patrick WarburtonI'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience. Votes: 0
Dario ArgentoThe audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative. Votes: 0
Bobby McFerrinThere's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start. Votes: 0
Stephen HopkinsI still want to get some empathy from the audience, even though she's pathetic. Votes: 0
Laura VandervoortEverything we're doing means there is a much bigger audience that we can reach. Votes: 0
Tamara MellonYou've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it. Votes: 0
John MedinaA comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal. Votes: 0
Fred AllenThe idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution. Votes: 0
David CronenbergWhat I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains. Votes: 0
Lily TomlinTomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics. Votes: 0
Mark TwainI know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about. Votes: 0
Tyler PerryIf I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience. Votes: 0
Barry McGeeIn theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanSolidly know content you feel passionate about and that your audience needs to know. Votes: 0
Tony RobbinsI'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds. Votes: 0
Stephen SondheimMy objective is to satisfy [my] audience so they come back the next day. Votes: 0
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodI think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there. Votes: 0
Simon CowellMy seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write. Votes: 0
Will HobbsThere is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use. Votes: 0
Eugene SchwartzAny authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. Votes: 0
Rebecca WestI wish I would tell our audience that we don't hate them without sounding cheesy. Votes: 0
Kurt CobainIn a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage. Votes: 0
Marlon BrandoEvery single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react. Votes: 0
Vivien LeighI'm not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them Votes: 0
Tyra BanksI can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song. Votes: 0
Miranda LambertIt is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying. Votes: 0
Ingrid BergmanI see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play. Votes: 0
Christian CamargoThe audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time. Votes: 0
Kurt EllingAdvertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience. Votes: 0
Howard RheingoldYou must constantly persist to imprint your brand image on the mind of your audience Votes: 0
Bernard Kelvin CliveI'm not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them. Votes: 0
Tyra BanksDon't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them. Votes: 0
Bertolt BrechtMany senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience. Votes: 0
Jessica SavitchWho doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well. Votes: 0
Vanessa MaranoI have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career. Votes: 0
Marsha NormanUnless you connect to the text, the audience won't be able to connect with you. Votes: 0
Patsy RodenburgIn his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat. Votes: 0
Nusrat Fateh Ali KhanThe audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see. Votes: 0
Park Chan-wookThere is no substitute for taking off in flight in front of a live audience. Votes: 0
Tempestt BledsoeThe more you defend in the face of a critical audience, the more you polarize. Votes: 0
George W. BushWhen you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things. Votes: 0
Robin WilliamsIf satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized. Votes: 0
Gore VidalWhen a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too. Votes: 0
Stephen KingWhen you are an artist, you want your audience to think its effortless and easy. Votes: 0
Charles FleischerI was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience. Votes: 0
Kirstie AlleyYou make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it. Votes: 0
Bruce SpringsteenAs a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind. Votes: 0
Chika AnaduThe modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag. Votes: 0
Robert EnglundThe audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on. Votes: 0
Nelson RodriguesTell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said. Votes: 0
Dale CarnegieOn any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience. Votes: 0
Bruce SpringsteenFilmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets. Votes: 0
Dean DevlinWe do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum. Votes: 0
Brian MayWe're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment. Votes: 0
John PetrucciWhen I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person. Votes: 0
Red BarberI try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar. Votes: 0
Kaki KingIf the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit. Votes: 0
Casey KasemAll my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience. Votes: 0
Mstislav RostropovichIn the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect. Votes: 0
Tristan BernardSome actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat. Votes: 0
Francesca AnnisYou can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts. Votes: 0
Howard ThurstonAll you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too Votes: 0
Brendan FraserWhen I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'. Votes: 0
Brian GreeneIf you put me in South Park, that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes. Votes: 0
Stephan PastisWhen I am on the road and heading to my next venue, I think about my audience. Votes: 0
David CopperfieldThere can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience. Votes: 0
Charles Grandison FinneyA film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Votes: 0
Chuck PalahniukThe key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion. Votes: 0
David CopperfieldI know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me. Votes: 0
Bernie MacThe thing about me is that I don't judge my audience. I welcome. It is a big tent. Votes: 0
Willie GeistI do not want my new works to be generated in a market or audience of any kind. Votes: 0
Vincent GalloWhen I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it. Votes: 0
Ignacy Jan PaderewskiAn audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.
Bruce SpringsteenYou can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.
Frank SpotnitzI just love the world around me and wanted my audience to love and appreciate it too.
Jean Craighead GeorgeIf you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.
Neill BlomkampI'm just not made for that kind of live audience where you don't create a fourth wall.
Kristen StewartWhen people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
Norm MacDonaldI have a generally liberal audience, but they will applaud when I nail a liberal lion.
Stephen ColbertI always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.
Steven SpielbergWhen the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I'm so happy I did a nice thing.
Adam SandlerMartin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'
Anthony GiddensI'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.
David CopperfieldI'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.
Elizabeth OlsenI try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
Judy GarlandThis is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.
Kurt VonnegutI play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.
Winston ChurchillShall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?
AristophanesIf you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.
Dorothy FieldsOnce you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.
Fran LebowitzNo one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.
James S.A. CoreyI don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.
Julie AndrewsIf you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
Khalil GibranThe audience falls in love with a leading man because he'll never belong to any of them.
Lisa KleypasIn order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
Randal KleiserYou can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.
Charlotte RamplingTo get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.
James BluntI write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.
Jonathan CarrollIn film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
Manuel PuigChildren are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.
Maurice SendakI do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.
Phil CollinsTeenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.
Sarah DessenNot every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a "Sopranos,'
Sue NaegleI don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
William LandayMost of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.
Adam McKayNudity doesn't scare me at all; the only thing about it is the perception by the audience.
Amanda SeyfriedI never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.
Andrew StantonCreating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.
Ashley MadekweI misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.
Bo BurnhamI'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.
David BowieTo have a blog is to have some portion of your brain assigned to monitoring your audience.
Jake LodwickWhen everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
Janis JoplinIt seems like movies that have heart to them always do well, and they find their audience.
Jeff FoxworthyThe films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience's misconceptions.
Josephine DeckerIf you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.
Julia ChildIf I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.
Liev SchreiberThe audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
Magic JohnsonThe Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to
Michael BoltonI learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.
Miranda LambertI do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.
Neil DiamondA procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.
Rebecca SolnitTo be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.
Roberto BenigniThe audience should go out and see Shark Night 3D because you can bring your whole family.
Sinqua WallsI think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.
William S. BurroughsI'm not sure if the audience can smell tuna but the special guest each show definitely can.
Alex TimbersForget about acquiring new people. If you service your audience they will get you new fans.
Bob LefsetzA show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.
Bruce BoxleitnerMy music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
David CassidyIsrael's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.
Gideon RaffI really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.
Glenn FreyMaking something new to look at is a futile and empty act if its only audience is the eyes.
Joseph KosuthIn the world of music, the audience is not just fans of music; they're fans of many things.
Scott AvettYesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.
Anne Morrow LindberghI always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.
Charlton HestonI never tell the audience what to think of me. When I talk, how you consume it is up to you.
Colin CowherdOf course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
Dorothy ParkerI wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.
Edward BurtynskyObviously the actors are incredible at being the audience surrogates in this crazy universe.
Hiro MuraiI feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
Steve EarleI wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.
Adrian TomineConfusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control.
Joost MeerlooWhen you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!
Laura MaranoThe art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
Laurence OlivierThe final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
Edward AlbeeIt's insanely difficult to ask an audience to go somewhere other than YouTube to watch videos.
Grace HelbigI'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.
Jenny HolzerLead with a personal story. Give your audience a way to connect and show you're a real person.
Michael HyattThe size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.
Randy PauschThe play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
Theodore BikelI've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
Wilson MiznerThe effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
Lawrence DurrellTrue citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.
Lewis HydeThere's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.
Mary McCormackI think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.
Natalie MerchantThere is a point you can definitely lose the audience and sometimes you don't know where it is.
Peter FarrellyWhen you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
Adam LambertIf you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.
Cary FukunagaI don't want to go too far away from what I'm doing now because that would alienate my audience.
Charlotte ChurchBoth Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.
Cinda Williams ChimaWhen I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
George BurnsIn truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.
J. K. RowlingI've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.
Mickey GilleyI think honesty is a big part. Because when you sing live, you want the audience to believe you.
Pixie LottOnce an audience feels that you trust them like you trust a friend, they do become your friends.
Signe BaumaneUltimately, an audience wants to laugh. That's who they like, the comedian who makes them laugh.
Ted AlexandroYou as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
Walter HillI try to think about me, as an audience member, and it [inspiration for movies] comes from there.
Alexandre AjaNot only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.
Carole KingMake the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.
David MametSo many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
FergieThere was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.
George CarlinWhen you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.
Ian MckellenWhen I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there.
Jason ReitmanIt is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!
Kevin NealonIt's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.
Lance BurtonI don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.
Mel GibsonSociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.
Robert BlyOne of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience.
Scott AvettI always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
Steve MartinAs far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
Adam McKayWhen I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.
Andy KaufmanI think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.
Craig FergusonLook your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.
Dale CarnegieWithout the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian.
George CarlinMy audience is often hands-up, standing and cheering and on tables and all of that kind of things.
Gloria GaynorMy heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.
Mark TwainI'm never really nervous because I've done the maximum; now it's up to the audience to do its job.
Michel OcelotI think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along.
Michiel HuismanThat's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.
Rick YanceyI believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
Vince McMahonIf the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.
Alan MooreI hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad.
Alejandro Gonzalez InarrituIf someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.
Alexander WangIt never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.
Dale CarnegieBut the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.
Gene WilderWhich one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?
Gene WilderI don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.
Henry RollinsFew things turn-off an audience more than a performer with an air of self-imporance or a 'message.'
Jay SankeyWhen you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.
Joyce DeWittI would be happier if it were a full audience full of drag queens. It would be my dreams come true.
LadyhawkeActing is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
Leo RostenThe time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day.
Mother TeresaPodiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.
Nathan LowellThe audience goes to sleep really quickly! If you have a slight pause at the wrong time, that's it!
Woody AllenNon-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?
Arundhati RoyLive stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.
Ben VereenI almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.
Carter BurwellI would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.
Daniel RadcliffeIf you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.
Dwayne JohnsonMost of the time when you do a job, a play or a film, you're wondering, "Will there be an audience?"
Ian MckellenKnow your audience. If I don't share in a way that will be understood, I lose my ability to connect.
Jennifer WiderstromSpeak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd.
Joseph ParkerThere's really no way of ever knowing how the audience is going to respond to any episode or change.
Stephen Nathan