Audience Quotes
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It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.
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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.
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I have 60-plus videos on YouTube and over 30 million views. Of those 60, only three or four are branded videos. I built that audience by telling stories the way I like to tell them.
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A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
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I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.
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In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.
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One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
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I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.
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Sitcoms are like summer stock. You put it up in three days, and then you do it in front of an audience, so it's a really great transition from theatre into camera work.
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I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.
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Nudity doesn't scare me at all; the only thing about it is the perception by the audience.
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Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.
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Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.
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The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.
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The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.
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Sometimes a scene can elude you, and then, you also learn that the small moments are really what you're after. A big broad moment that gets the crew laughing, usually isn't going to translate to an audience.
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There's no such thing as a passive audience.
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There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.
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There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
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Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.
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The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater more vital than ever. It's definitely expensive, but I have faith that the market will keep recognizing the live experience as a valuable and important one.
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Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.
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The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.
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I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.
