Audience Quotations | Page 5

As goofy as it sounds, I try to sing in the morning. It's hard both to sing and to maintain a grouchy mood, and it sets a happy tone for everyone - particularly in my case, because I'm tone deaf, and my audience finds my singing a source of great hilarity.

I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.

I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.

I didn't want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I've tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows may cause the players degenerative brain disease.

You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you're just breaking in and that's working, and that's - you're one step removed doing a situation comedy because you have a live audience there.

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

I've always believed that a dance evening energizes an audience, that an audience goes out feeling chemically stronger and more optimistic. This is what I understand about dance. And this is an important thing. We need this. Our culture needs it.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

I want to show audiences I can act.

A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics.

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.

You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for the audience rather than to present it to the audience for their enjoyment and them to mull over the questions that the characters present.

What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to get into that narrative and bring the audience along.

Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

I do respect them; I have great respect for women. In fact, one of the reasons 'The Apprentice' was such a successful show for so many years, the audience of women was fantastic.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.

The potential for this play is to sweep the audience into this world that they're not familiar with. Our general consensus about that hillbilly lifestyle is that they're inbred and ignorant, but they're not that type of people. They believe what they believe, and they believe it very strongly.

The people who worked at the clubs just assumed I was a tagalong girlfriend or groupie. I'd get up on stage and the audience was just like, 'Show me your tits!' I had nothing to show anyway.

The point I've always made is that I'm writing for a general audience, rather than just for an audience of academics or fellow historians.

We are looking forward to going back to where the whole thing started. In a sense, it will be an exciting return to yesteryear, but it also brings the awards to a theater that has been specifically designed to make the show exciting for the audience in the theater as well as a brilliant television program.

We're in a very, very fortunate situation where every week we have a full 'Impact' Zone out of Universal Studios-Orlando, and probably 90 percent of that audience is from all over the country and from different parts of the world. We're lucky that those people get to come to us.

Where typically the cops are generally the good guys, 'The Red Road' blurs the lines intelligently and shows corruption from all sides of the law. It provides unpredictable drama where the audience is kept guessing about how these characters will each choose to act.

When you walk out in front of an audience of over 70,000 people, you've got to be on your game. They deserve it.

When you think of the number of hours that go into casting, shooting and assembling the tape into a coherent story, ... it's not an easy process to do. For our audience, it's a show that's very 'relate-able.' It's a lot of fun to watch because you can see people have personal disasters, which is something our audience really enjoys watching.

When you take a genre that is this entrenched and become the worldwide standard for how a news program is done and you start looking at alternative ways to do it, it's a challenging process, ... You have a core audience that is used to things a certain way that you don't want to alienate, but you also want to attract a new audience. We're trying to balance those two things.

Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See?

I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.

Whether we visit South Bend, or the game is played on the East Coast, it is of great interest to our collective national audience of Irish fans, Naval Academy alumni and the Navy family at large, ... Two institutions with similar values rekindling a lengthy and well-respected relationship make this game special.

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew my jazz background, suggested I try big-band music, so we spent a year experimenting with it in concert, and the audience reaction was really good.

When we have this much equity in a show, and the audience responds as rabidly as they did this year, it's a big success for us. This is and will remain one of our signature shows. A pickup was a no-brainer.

We believe we have a youthful and energetic cast that should appeal to a new audience that is increasingly comfortable with this downloadable format as a viewing option. The multi-platform efforts are a buzz-generator for certain shows such as 'Conviction,' and we want to pro-actively reach out to these viewers who have many options for entertainment.

Unless the audience sits through the credits, they're going to assume it's Wyoming. This has a great impact on us.

Very few people have seen the team perform. Now a larger audience can see them if they have public access television.

We're getting sick of the fact that nationally we don't get a lot of credit. I really think the national audience is going to have to start paying attention to us at some time.

We're honing the cast of 'American Morning' in order to focus on what the audience wants most and what CNN does best: the latest news delivered with the greatest intelligence, ... In a morning television landscape littered with mindless entertainment, there will be one name you can rely on for no-nonsense news: O'Brien.

Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there's also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it's over.

We're quite heavy on opening the sport up, and an event like this brings a completely new audience to golf. People like Jodie Kidd just have a different appeal, rather than the Wales Open which is more the golfing market.

We're quite excited, because the audience went absolutely bananas. We did Paris (for the last DVD), and we thought we'd do Milan since we work there a lot, and it worked out really well.

We know how important it is to establish the trust of the audience and really make sure that our enthusiasm is shared by those who attend the concerts.

I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.

If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.

Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog.

Writers traditionally see themselves and are perceived as acting in the solitude of their rooms, doing their work. They can only survive if they have an audience and engage in the process with others.

We've wanted to do this for a while. We're trying to expand our audience base by doing something lighter; we want families to come with their kids and find that this is accessible.

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.

We have to go further and further out on a limb in order to keep today's audience entertained because they're not excited anymore about seeing a fast car chase on San Francisco streets. For a Coca-Cola and box of popcorn, it isn't worth getting somebody killed, and if at the end of the movie it says 'in memoriam to,' then you haven't properly done your job.

We want our audience to be able to stay in touch so if they?re walking down the street and they get a news alert and they want to see more, they can also go watch it on TV.

The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you knew it.

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.

When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there.

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.

American audiences are affected by what the English people think.

I'm able to reach a wider audience, an older audience. I can gladly say that I'm definitely not a bubblegum princess anymore.

I don't want to go too far away from what I'm doing now because that would alienate my audience.

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.

Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.

We are also very audience interactive. We want the audience to experience our performance, not just watch it.

We are all on the same trip in the band. We all realize that people in the music business, and the audience have an eye on us because collectively our history is extensive.

Women represent the fastest-growing Internet population and a television audience that remains underserved. The new network will provide a destination exclusively for smart, active women seeking relevant content and community.

You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

You can have a good vibe and a good feeling about something, but you never really know how it's going to be received and how an audience is going to react to it.

When you sell a product or service, you're making a promise to your audience. If you don't understand your audience, you'll never be able to keep that promise and you'll ultimately let them down.

I don't write for a particular audience.

One of the things that EBONY [magazine] has done for years, decades is perspective. They knew what our audience was, they know who we are, so that's what I hope to do with this show.

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to sing songs with words, too.

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

I can't imagine working without and audience.

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.

There's an awful lot of scenes where we don't know what the scene's going to be about, we ask the audience, pick a place that the scene is happening, pick the relationship, tell us who they are, things like that.

I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.

We want the audience to forget about their crazy work week, drink up and have a good time.