Audience Quotes

• As a matter of fact, I constantly tell audiences all over the world that the single greatest icon of American culture from the publication of "To Kill A Mockingbird" was that novel so that if we say, what conversation can we have that would lead us on a road of tolerance, and teachers have decided that if you're going to teach values in a school in America, the answer that American teachers at all kinds of schools have come up with, just let Harper Lee teach "To Kill A Mockingbird." And then all the teacher has to do is stand back and guide the discussion.

  

  Wayne Flynt
  • Teacher
  • Conversation
  • Discussion

• It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

  

  Heather Matarazzo
  • Experience
  • Movies
  • Critic pans

• 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
  • Audience
  • Glory
  • Pushing

• I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Remember
  • Feelings
  • Forget

• Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I consider him the greatest frontman of all time. Like, it's funny? You'd imagine that Freddie was more than human, but... You know how he controlled Wembley Stadium at Live Aid in 1985? He stood up there and did his vocal warm ups with the audience. Something that intimate, where they realize, 'Oh yeah, he's just a f***ing dude.'

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Funny
  • Consider
  • Freddie Mercury

• I do an improv show on Sunday where we have a class, and then afterwards we go and do a live performance in front of an audience.

  

  Nolan Gould
  • Shows
  • Sunday
  • Class

• I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Voice
  • Playing
  • Exuberance

• The young people look great on television. They’re youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven’t got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• Patrick thought we should try to put an audience in front of one of the workshops, basically in front of the class and see how the performers rose to having an audience there, because he said, "You know, it's a really interesting test, because sometimes it gets even funnier."

  

  Brian Henson
  • Audience
  • Workshop

• When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

  

  Wesley Borland Big Dumb Face
  • Music
  • Backgrounds
  • Song Is

• But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Audience
  • I Think
  • States

• It was nerve-racking to begin with but once I started and the audience accepted it I relaxed. It has been surreal.

  

  Susan Boyle
  • Audience
  • Accept
  • Surreal

• Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory normal person + anonymity + audience = total fuckwad

  

  Christian Rudder
  • Person
  • Internet
  • Anonymity

• Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

  

  Carole King
  • Want
  • Desire
  • Audience

• I felt like I was seeing it with the audience it was made for,

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Audience
  • Seeing

• I love every aspect of live performance and putting our shows together and approaching it from the standpoint of, 'What would we want to see if we were a fan sitting in the audience?'

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Audience
  • I Love
  • Performance

• When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.

  

  Juice Newton
  • Positive
  • Audience
  • Leaves

• Also expressionistic filmmaking - making the audience feel like they were inside the characters' heads. And so we create all these different types of techniques to put the audience there.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Different
  • Audience
  • Filmmaking

• There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Way
  • Audience
  • Terror

• I do not write for an audience.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Audience
  • Write

• The weakness of cable news is that it chases its audience around. Your audience wants fast-paced, popular news. It needs real news. Cable news changes its stripes based on audience reaction. Viewers are reacting well to breaking news? You probably do more breaking news than you need to. The struggle is building something so that people will come to you, as opposed to constantly changing what you are because you're unsure of where the audience is.

  

  Ali Velshi
  • Audience
  • News
  • Reacting

• It's the band that really counts and not our egos. Egos probably destroyed more bands than anything else did, and that's something we want to avoid at all costs. We want to give the audience something real, something spectacular, and if it would be about egos, it would hardly be worth their time.

  

  Chester Bennington Linkin Park
  • Band
  • Destroyed
  • Egos

• Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon the convention of reading and the common cognitive disciplines. Indeed, it is this very voluntary cooperation, so unique to comics, that underlies the contract between artist and audience.

  

  Will Eisner
  • Unique
  • Reader
  • Cooperation

• I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Audience
  • Camera
  • Aware

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