Audience Quotes

• It's important to prepare audience for the worst in life. People come to forget their problems, and it's my job, right before I leave, to go, "Don't forget: You're going through a divorce and there's a recession." It's always good to end on a pensive note.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Problems
  • Forget
  • Divorce

• The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy.

  

  Joshua Cohen
  • Audience
  • Expression
  • Intimacy

• Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Audience

• Once you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere.

  

  Alex Hirsch
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Significance

• The stage is that immediate rush of energy you get from the audience. Also, doing something in chronology - something that starts and finishes the same night. In television, you work toward the one scene, you shoot it, and then you have to forget about it because you have to worry about the next scene.

  

  Juan Pablo Di Pace
  • Energy
  • Audience
  • Stage

• In my songs, I try to look through someone else's eyes, and I want to give the audience a feeling more than a message.

  

  John Prine
  • Eyes
  • Songs
  • Message

• I love adventure movies, I just love action adventure films. It's pure cinema and you go in and you're lost to it. To me, it's that challenge - I want to give an audience that ride, that entertainment.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Challenge
  • Movies
  • Adventure

• Sometimes you get an audience that's looking to just explode.

  

  Jerry Only
  • Sometimes
  • Audience

• Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.

  

  Greg Ginn Black Flag
  • Running
  • Findings
  • Labels

• Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

  

  Bono U2
  • Audience
  • I Think
  • Politicians

• I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.

  

  Carrot Top
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Should

• You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough, it isn't interesting. If they walk out, you are in trouble.

  

  Peter Stone
  • Interesting
  • Laugh
  • Walk

• I think people get too comfortable, in just doing what they do every week. And I'm all about challenge and change, and I like to read the audience.

  

  Trish Stratus
  • Challenges
  • Week
  • Comfortable

• 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.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Laughing

• Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.

  

  Richard Strauss
  • Audience
  • Pleasure
  • Making

• I look at all of world mythology and folklore as my toy to play with. There are just so many characters and creatures there I want to put on paper. It's a really exciting thing for me to take material that I really love and put a new coat of paint on it and present it to this audience. And I don't have to make up any of the characters. I can just pull a book of mythology off the shelf and say, "I'll use this guy." I also hate making up names for fantasy characters. I'll just flip through these books and say, "Wow, this is way crazier than anything I could make up".

  

  Mike Mignola
  • Character
  • Exciting
  • Mythology

• I love feeding off the audience, and to me, what's the point if you're not going to think of the fans. Anyone can play music in their house, but you put it out because you want interact with your fans. And, as an artist, you get so much from your fans.

  

  Dido
  • Thinking
  • Fans
  • Feeding

• The main ideas for us are scale, stability, and audience.

  

  Harper Reed
  • Ideas
  • Stability
  • Scale

• Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble

  

  Paul Lynde
  • Friend
  • Looks
  • Trouble

• I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.

  

  Neil LaBute
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Care

• When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us.

  

  Prince
  • Audience
  • Changes
  • Credit

• When you start, it's not to do with the material so much. It's more to do with how you can control a crowd and make friends with an audience and sell your brand of humor.

  

  Noel Fielding
  • Control
  • Start
  • Humor

• I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Life
  • Audience
  • Experiences

• Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Writing
  • May
  • Book

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