Audience Quotes
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A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
William Shatner
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My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.
Michael Eric Dyson
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I am very lucky I chose 100% of the songs on my show. My audience loves to hear absolute classics and I am in the wonderful position in being able to play them.
Jo Whiley
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If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.
Raymond Duncan
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The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.
Treat Williams
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A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of Solitude for an entire generation of American Baby Boomers, and deserves the widest possible audience.
Ellen Kushner
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There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
William Gaddis
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Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a 'Sopranos'.
Sue Naegle
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It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.
Stephen Sondheim
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When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.
Susan Estrich
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It's a gamble. A band like Kiss, a lot of those are our audience but we don't do as much make-up. Alice would have more to lose if we got back together.
Michael Owen Bruce
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There's no such thing as a passive audience.
Chip Heath
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If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.
Casey Kasem
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Sometimes I go to a test screening and look at the audience in line, and I start to go, "Okay, I bet this is going to work, and this isn't going to work." It's weird, but just going and facing the music and putting it out before a crowd, even before it starts playing, that exercise of putting it up on a screen for people makes you realize things even before it starts rolling. It's really weird. I've heard other people say that, too.
Mike Judge
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Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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There's a bit of a difference in the way he sounds. Samuel E. Wright lent his voice and personality to the animated film with his booming voice. I have a high-tenor voice. Instead, I have to figure out a way to convince the audience to come along with me and accept this new texture and tambour to the way Sebastian sounds. I have a great dialect coach.
Tituss Burgess
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I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience.
David Bowie
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Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.
Nicholas Meyer
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There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.
Tom Conti
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There's no huge message and there doesn't have to be, but we're having as much fun, us and our audience, as any band out there, I think, and we're proud of it.
Joe King The Fray
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You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.
Hayao Miyazaki
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I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.
Simon Callow
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You can never predict what an audience is going to respond to and what they're going to watch.
Josh Lawson
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Poetry: What kind of art assumes the dislike of its audience and what kind of artist aligns herself with that dislike, even encourages it? An art hated from without and within.
Ben Lerner