Audience Quotes
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
Al Pacino
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I think the audience was aware that even when it was farcical, there was the sense that at some level this was about real experience.
Alan Alda
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Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. They want the freedom. If they want to binge as they've been doing on 'House of Cards' and lots of other shows, we should let them binge.
Kevin Spacey
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Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.
Carmine Gallo
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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Kevin Spacey
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I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away - the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don't think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don't buy it.
Anderson Cooper
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I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.
Jason Mraz
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There is a difference when you work with actors who have worked on the stage. When we're out there in front of an audience eight times a week, you can't do it on your own.
Karen Allen
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Audiences can be leery of sequels; the studios make a hit, they see dollar signs, and they make a cheap rip-off.
William Katt
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When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.
Richard Thompson
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I want to explore and do things with excellence. I want to write songs that resonate with me and will resonate with a live audience. I'm exploring fresh sounds.
Anthony Evans
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A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one and only reality. In such cases we have a sense in which the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be performer and observer of the same show. Presumably he introcepts or incorporates the standards he attempts to maintain in the presence of others so that even in their absence his conscience requires him to act in a socially proper way.
Erving Goffman
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Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.
Jack White The White Stripes
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You'll also need to invest in yourself with the kind of promo that targets your specific audience to help build that word of mouth. Most importantly, believe in what you're doing and in your music and lyrics.
Eliot Lewis The Average White Band
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If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.
Tom Stoppard
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I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.
Adele
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You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'
Alan Rickman
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It's light-hearted. We've taken out all the language -- just things that would offend a Utah audience.
Jeff Long
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This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.
Jon Bon Jovi
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Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.
Nathan Lowell
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The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.
Kevin Spacey
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I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.
Ziggy Marley
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Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.
George Clooney