Quotes About Audience

Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.

Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

Theater is just so much more satisfying than film or television just because you deliver the whole thing from start to finish in one evening, and you can tell if people have enjoyed it or not. That's great to do every night to go in front of a full room of people and tell the story. There's nothing like that really.

I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

The Majestic Theater in 1990. That was one of my first real shows where I had 300 to 400 people there.

I love the smaller clubs. I love the theaters. I love the festivals. There are things I don't like. At certain theaters, people can't get up and dance.

I don't really like doing big stand-up. Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up. I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

Other theaters exist here solely to entertain the white audience and keep South Africa on a par with what's going on in the West End or Broadway. The Market concerns itself with theater of this country, for this country.

Cinema will not go anywhere. We want to watch movies in theaters. Cinema and digital will coexist.

As much as we love playing the small clubs, we'd really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I'm not talking about arenas or anything, but nice theaters and larger clubs.

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.

Movies don't sit in the theaters for an entire summer like they did in 1982. Now you've got a two- or three-week shelf life so you need to have that awareness right off the bat. And in order to make a lot of people know about your movie, you need to be out there banging the drum and showing your stuff.

I enjoy my solo career because I get to play smaller places like clubs and theaters, and the interaction with the audience is much higher quality. It also sounds better than a baseball stadium. Everybody has a good seat, and I don't have to play a specific part like I do in the Eagles.

There have been several television movies, 'Carrie 2,' two musicals! I remember thinking, the first time there was a musical on Broadway, 'Oh my gosh! The people who ordinarily go to the theaters, that's not really the audience.'

If based on popularity, people will come to theaters because of my name, then I would be very happy, but it isn't about Daisy, it is about the director and the film and the co-actors.

I'd rather do smaller theaters, because it's more fun for the audience and more fun for me. I like to build up demand.

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up.