Quotes on Audience

I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.

When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're laughing, because they're relaxed and they're disarmed.

The mainstream audience has a certain picture of what climbing is all about: man conquering mountain. But you can't conquer a mountain, though it may conquer you.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.

I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.

The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.

My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film's story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it.

I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

No matter how big the audience is going to be. I'm interested in doing things that are fun.

When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're driven by an emotion they must express. When talented people write well, it is generally for this reason: They're moved by a desire to touch the audience.

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is, you must prove it.

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

It's time for storytellers to tell the stories that have not had the privilege of being shown to the world, and the audience will be there.