Quotes About Audience

I had seen 'Do the Right Thing' when I was at college, and it was incredibly inspiring as a piece of cinema. Just brilliant, I thought. But saw 'Malcolm X' with a crowded audience. It was my first time in an American cinema, hearing an audience respond. You know, in England, everyone is so restrained.

We have to play 'Livin' on a Prayer,' 'Bad Medicine.' We have to play them, and we want to play them, and that's what we're supposed to do. It's like going to see The Beatles and them not playing your favorite song. It's not the right thing to do.

The secret of success in cinema lies in not just being talented but showcasing your talent to the audience. And, that happens only when you get the right films and directors.

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.

I loved 'The Simpsons' because it didn't talk down to its audience.

I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.

I remember watching episodes of 'The Sopranos' and being filled with dread knowing what was coming or anticipating what was coming. I don't think that that's always a bad thing. I think sometimes the audience needs a little catharsis held away from them.

I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

The first perk of theater is the girls.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

I come from the theater, so I like it being: curtain up, this is what we want you to see, we have a reason for showing it to you, and then the curtain comes down, and that's it.

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.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

A lot of people, especially Japanese, come to the theater to have a good cry.