Audience Quotes

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

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

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

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

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

The family of God is the choir, and God is their audience.

If something comes from your heart, it will reach the heart of your audience.

There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use.

When the audience isn't laughing, that doesn't mean that they're not fascinated.

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.

Tell the audience what you're going to say,
say it;
then tell them what you've said.

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.

Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?

You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.

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.

I think the audience likes to be entertained.

I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

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

What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.

I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did.

American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

The films I like to watch are when they make it relatable to human audiences.

(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them

I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?

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

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

An audience can be like a pack of wolves.

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

Unless you connect to the text, the audience won't be able to connect with you.

A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.

There’s nothing more emotional than looking out at an audience and knowing they’re there because they understand.

You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

In general, I think audiences are a lot smarter than people think. So, it's not "know your audience", it's "respect your audience, and really know your content".