Audience Quotes

• Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Play
  • Waiting
  • Lasts

• I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.

  

  Len Wein
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Reach

• When I'm in the audience of Broadway shows, I feel like I'm in the presence of something really special with artists working at the height of their craft and doing the best work that they possibly can.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Artists
  • Craft
  • Best Work

• I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.

  

  Ed Zern
  • Believe
  • Weight
  • Improve

• People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • People
  • Never
  • Say

• I remember playing Coachella and seeing kids in the audience who weren't even born when we had our initial run of success. They were singing along to every word, which was an amazing thing to see.

  

  David Lovering Pixies
  • Success
  • Singing
  • I Remember

• Well, I think it's important to keep things secretive because what's happened so much is the press competes with each other to put as much information out there as they can and sometimes it can be very damaging to the films to have the stories leaked or certain plot details. I think it's important to have something remain secretive for the audience and something special for the audience so there aren't spoilers all over the internet.

  

  Walter C. Pfister, ASC
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Sometimes

• 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

• It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious.

  

  Esther Williams
  • Sensation
  • Delicious
  • Conveyed

• You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Book
  • Interesting
  • Film

• An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

  

  Sarah Wayne Callies
  • Audience
  • Actor
  • Rehearsing

• 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

• I need space between me and the audience - and the more space the better.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • Space
  • Needs
  • Audience

• I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Remember
  • Audience
  • Afraid

• If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Audience
  • Persons
  • Female

• 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

• I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience.

  

  Brandy Clark
  • Audience
  • I Think
  • Country Music

• Finding the fine line between satisfying a daytime TV audience and an afternoon radio audience. That involved editing down my delivery to under an hour. I've been blessed to have great producers and a great staff to achieve that. I have a small team but they're very efficient.

  

  Wendy Williams
  • Blessed
  • Producers
  • Findings

• You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.

  

  Paul Haggis
  • Audience
  • Inside
  • Pictures

• In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

  

  Michael Kinsley
  • Think
  • Information
  • Journalist

• I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Music
  • Wish
  • Learning

• There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

  

  Catherine Hicks
  • Acting
  • Yourself
  • Showing

• I wanted the song to contain various meanings, and what I wanted in particular was to appeal to the audience with my charms as a man.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Men
  • Song
  • Various

• I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Beautiful
  • Singing
  • Picture

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