Audience Quotes

• The art that I do is for the people. It is about engaging a new audience who wouldn't necessarily go to art galleries and museums and painting on the street is the best way to do that.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Art
  • Museums
  • Galleries

• You can't expect the audience to feel anything if you don't.

  

  William Boughton
  • Audience
  • Anything
  • Expect

• The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Audience
  • Right
  • Dull

• You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

  

  Molly Shannon
  • Audience
  • Laughing

• You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do the stunt. If it's character and it's storytelling, then we do it. We design the things around me. I don't do it just to do a stunt. It's storytelling for me and how I can best bring the audience into the action, bring the audience into the story. And that's how we always look at at.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Character
  • Design
  • Story

• The first time I played in front of a live audience, I realised I wanted to be a musician. I was about four years old and had always liked music.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Time
  • Music
  • Musician

• I want my audience to say, "Wow, this is a film I'm benefiting from. I'm benefiting from what this filmmaker is trying to say." I'd always rather learn and be entertained than be entertained and feel myself getting dumber by the moment.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Trying
  • Moments
  • Film

• I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Real
  • Moments
  • Laughing

• 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

• 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

• Sometimes you'll play, like, a large venue - maybe an outdoor venue or something - where it's so big that you can see all of the disinterested people. You see the audience, but then behind the audience you see people eating ice cream, going for a walk.

  

  Brian Regan
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Eating

• As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

  

  Chika Anadu
  • Mind
  • Film
  • Filmmaker

• 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

• I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Choices
  • Walking
  • Challenges

• 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

• Nothing runs forever. How you handle it, the most important thing is how you respect your audience, how you respect your cast, and being incredibly sensitive to how you wrap up any show when it ends a successful run.

  

  Nina Tassler
  • Respect
  • Audience
  • Show

• The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Country
  • Song
  • Strange

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

  

  Jerry Only
  • Sometimes
  • Audience

• There's no such thing as a passive audience.

  

  Chip Heath
  • Audience
  • Passive

• 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

• The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Sound
  • Certain
  • Harmony

• So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Long
  • Values
  • Term

• I don't mind reminding people it's a movie, or that you're telling a story. Everybody knows this, but for some reason, we want to be real. I don't get it, I like the fakeness of my craft. I don't think the audience minds-they all know we're making a movie.

  

  Rutger Hauer
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Reason

• Ballet has a very small audience, unfortunately.

  

  Sascha Radetsky
  • Small
  • Audience
  • Ballet

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