Audience Quotes

Each audience is different.

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

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

During that hour, we live with our audience. Because, without a doubt, everything we have is thanks to them. It is very important to us to have that contact with the people who buy tickets to see us.

Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.

If the audience never understands the plot, it can be counted on to be attentive to the very end.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

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.

Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

I don't mind the audience identifying me with Red.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

It's up to the audience. It always has been.

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums.

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.

All of the material for The Fine Line was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience. We'd continue to refine it in front of an audience based on their responses until it was set and scripted.

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.

I don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I'm pro-choice, if I make that clear, it let's the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax. Okay, it's alright he's pro-choice then I can enjoy this.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.