Quotes About Audience

There's only a fellow sawing a woman in half this week.' 'Keep a half for me.

In the theater," Adelaide went on, wanting him to understand why she found this so interesting, "your audience doesn't expect things to look real. Like, you can't have a real car on the stage, anyway, can you? So instead, you make something obviously artificial. You just create the feeling. And maybe the thing you make, instead of looking real, feels true.

when we project our own cultural mores onto the original audience of the Bible, we may fail to apply the Bible correctly in our own lives.

The melody rose, unprofitably magical. It broke; it was resumed broken, not marching once from the cradle to the grave. The sadness of the incomplete—the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art—throbbed in its disjected phrases, and made the nerves of the audience throb. Not thus had she played on the little draped piano at the Bertolini, and "Too much Schumann" was not the remark that Mr. Beebe had passed to himself when she returned.

I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing—in tune!—and the audience loved it. Eartha Kitt, when asked what tricks her poodle did.

Sometimes there happens to be a particularly determined person in the audience who asks, 'So where is the hope?' My answer is always the same: 'Follow the young women.

This new type of entertainment created a new kind of human an audience not necessarily entertained but definitely mesmerized by immorality who over time became almost addicted to witnessing cruelty.

As long as you use the same adolescent cynicism and use the same fighting techniques, the readers and the audience don't give a damn whether your words have substance or not. They simply want you to win because you're their fighter in the cage, and that's it.

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

Writing for enjoyment of expression does not need an audience of more than one.

When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.

He addressed a large crowd and was warmly applauded.

But in the space of one minute he had told Colin Matheson more than he had ever told me. I had never known his age, for example. And I had written that he had spent ten years as a detective, not eleven. Why was Hawthorne answering these questions so readily in front of an audience in an Alderney cinema when with me he'd always been so guarded about his private life?

They were an audience … perhaps even a jury. My stomach was still churning. I felt like the condemned man.

paid for a wet weekend in Torquay! For all her airs and graces, it seems there isn't much of an audience for clinically depressed call girls surviving Hiroshima or weird Japanese poems that don't make any sense.

We had such a dedicated and interested audience that they provided the opportunity to do cool new things - and we like doing cool new things.

The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.

The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at a precise time.

We're providing planning to a huge audience who's never had access to financial planners before. This was always my plan for LearnVest. It was in my very first pitch deck.

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

Having a story is what people connect with, but the story alone doesn't allow you to achieve greatness and results. It's the day-to-day consistency of providing value to your audience.

Theatre, for me, is about providing to the audience a new and exciting experience.

If you're doing 70 gigs in a tour, there's a lot of responsibility. People need a big night out, and you're providing it.