Audience Quotes
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On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?
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An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control.
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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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I think audiences deserve the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to be surprised by them rather then just assume they'll react negatively to any new idea.
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I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were separated from us. We were all in the living room, and it happens to be a big living room. I continue to operate on that assumption.
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The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.
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I always want to be a member in the audience, and I want to hear it from their point of view and see it from their point of view so I can know if it's good. But that's just my issues, not a real problem.
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It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
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I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.
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People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
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Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is already inclined to do so. Secondly, when a man lays his case before you, the idea that he is asking your advice is a polite fabrication. He merely is suggesting that he is doing so, while as a fact his real object is to acquaint you with his personal activity. He wants to talk to somebody, being a natural gossip or gadder, and he plays upon your propensity for "giving advice" in order to get an audience.
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I'm dragging the audience to hell with me
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I'm committed to the show as long as I feel that we're moving forward. And I'm committed to the show as long as an audience will allow me to do it. I think they'll be very clear in the end, as will you all, when (the show) is no longer effective.
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I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western star there. We are considered like demi-gods here, and the reason is not because we are better or good, but because there is no other mode of entertainment in India.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.
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It's just what I'm born to do, I'm born to entertain people. I could do it for thirty-thousand people or three people, it's just what I know how to do. My soul objective only is for me to have the audience say 'when's the next time I can see him?' That's what I do.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.
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When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.
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The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
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I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.
