Quotes About Audience

Religions understand this: they know that to sustain goodness one, it helps to have an audience. The faiths hence provide us with a gallery of witnesses at the ceremonial beginnings of our marriages and thereafter they entrust a vigilant role to their deities.

the news badly needs its audience to feel agitated, frightened and bothered a lot of the time – yet we have an even greater responsibility to try to remain resilient.

It's not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn't be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.

Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains...

These days, superhero comics think the audience is certainly not nine to 13, it's nothing to do with them. It's an audience largely of 30-, 40-, 50-, 60-year old men, usually men. Someone came up with the term graphic novel. These readers latched on to it; they were simply interested in a way that could validate their continued love of Green Lantern or Spider-Man without appearing in some way emotionally subnormal.

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

El individuo medio es capaz de afrontar una narrativa compleja, pero a menudo no es lo que se le ofrece. En la cultura popular, primero, se decide que el público está compuesto sobre todo de simplones que no apreciarían nada inteligente. Entonces, se producen obras de ese estilo, asumiendo que es lo que la masa quiere. Este proceso, prolongado durante décadas, genera una audiencia que difícilmente podrá reconocer un material inteligente, si es que lo ve.

One of the reasons I enjoy going to the Opera is the spectacle of an audience enraptured. Their emotions are engaged, their passions brought to the fore, they become highly sensitive.

In magic, anyone with a shop-bought trick deck is a magician, and if people arent fooled they usually pretend to be, and they are understandably likely to mistake being fooled as a sign of being in the presence of an excellent magician.

Our desire to achieve does not happen in isolation. We seek an audience. When the audience refuses to cheer for us, we work hard until they admire us. We validate ourselves, like Satyavati, through the Other. The Other is the parent whose attention we crave.

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?

It's show business. No show, no business.

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.

The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.

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If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

Theres always the tension between losing an audience and doing the odd things you might want to try. The effort is always to make what you write nourishing or useful to readers. You do cut out some readers by idiosyncrasies of form. I regret this.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make films where it's never one way - like life.