Audience Quotes

• The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

  

  Wesley Earl Craven
  • Audience
  • Monster
  • Scare

• The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions into a play of visible forces in unbroken, virtual time...Both space and time, as perceptible factors, disappear almost entirely in the dance illusion.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Play
  • Dance
  • Force

• I never thought about the gayness. Liberace just looked like he was having so much fun. And that whole idea of talking directly to the audience, you just went along with him. He made you happy. And he's finally getting acknowledged for all the Elton John, Lady Gaga, Madonna theatrics now that people are looking at his old costumes.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Idea
  • Gayness
  • Liberace

• A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

  

  Richard McCabe
  • Different
  • Film
  • Acting

• At one point, people thought that Eddie Murphy would only reach one sector of the audience, but now everyone sees everything Eddie Murphy does.

  

  Morris Chestnut
  • Audience
  • Reach
  • Eddie Murphy

• You perform for a different audience each night. People who don't understand just think that you go out there every night and do the same thing, but you don't - you have to find out who they are and give it to them.

  

  Rik Mayall
  • Different
  • Audience
  • Perform

• In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.

  

  Davy Rothbart
  • Focus
  • Persons
  • Miserable

• I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Entertaining

• You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.

  

  Abe Burrows
  • Audience
  • Jokes
  • Line

• Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that's how we connect with our audiences.

  

  Stefon Harris
  • Emotional
  • Emotion
  • Musician

• No matter how much I'm on and people are loving me, there's always some like, and it's usually a woman too, in the audience rolling her eyes, "Oh Wayne, you're embarrassing yourself." There's always someone like that.

  

  Wayne White
  • Eyes
  • Woman
  • Audience

• Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

  

  Anthony Giddens
  • Kings
  • Nightmare
  • Luther

• Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Believe
  • Smart

• If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Looks
  • Teenager
  • Europe

• At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Audience
  • Characters
  • Stand-up comedy

• You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience. I always said to myself that whatever happens, big audience or small, that I would not let the results have an impact on my way of working. But it would be a bit silly for me to change my methods when I have a big success. That means my methods work well.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Mean
  • Film
  • Successful

• 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 tell people, "It's the hardest thing to explain, but it's the easiest thing to understand." And all anybody really needs to know is, the struggles of life, the joy of life, the excitement and the heartbreak of life is something we can all connect to. And I like to hope that the inclusivity of the show [This Is Us] is something that audiences will relate to.

  

  Milo Ventimiglia
  • Struggle
  • Excitement
  • Relate

• I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience, because without the audience I wouldn't have the blog or the revenue in the first place.

  

  Ree Drummond
  • Place
  • Advertising
  • Buying

• I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Smart
  • Violent
  • Cheerful

• I don't try to communicate with my 'audience'. I don't bother with that any more. I used to try to have conversations with people, but it's futile.

  

  Alec Baldwin
  • People
  • Audience
  • Communicate

• When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.

  

  Dan Graham
  • Audience
  • Politician

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

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • Space
  • Needs
  • Audience

• I can personally feel the relief myself in my audiences when I bring up Obama because there was a lot of anti-Obama sentiment out there before the capture of bin Laden.

  

  Tommy Davidson
  • Feels
  • Relief
  • Capture

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