Quotes About Audience

It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.

I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

I think what does influence you when you are going up against Rory and Tiger is the crowd, there's a lot more people milling around, there's more cameras and more distraction, and that's what makes it more difficult.

Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is.

Every night, I don't care if I'm doing interviews that day or photo shoots that day, what's most important is that I'm making sure I'm right and tight for the show. These people all come out to see me, so I have to perform and make sure that they never forget it.

It matters less how you see the world. It matters more how the world sees you. If you fail to understand what your audience truly values, then you can't communicate yourself in a way that makes people want to build connection and loyalty.

Alarm-based marketing logic often goes something like this: There is a limited quantity (scarcity). Unless you act now (urgency), you'll lose your opportunity (consequence). When crafting a message for an audience who is stuck in apathy or indecision, deadlines and consequences overcome inertia to create action.

If you communicate with a slew of haphazard and conflicting messages, it's difficult to develop a clearly established route. You'll seem confused, or inauthentic, and the audience will be less likely to understand what you stand for.

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

Early on in my tenure, I was given a cartoon that circulated widely at the UN. The cartoon showed dozens of people listening to a speech. In the first panel, the speaker asks, "Who wants change?" and all audience members enthusiastically raise their hands. In the second panel, the speaker refines his question, asking, "Who wants to change?" This time, each audience member looks toward the ground, demurring.

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

Nay, in many cases open denials of prayer prove the most excellent answers, and God's not hearing us is the most signal audience. Therefore at the foot of every prayer subscribe "thy will be done," and thou shalt enjoy preventing mercies that thou never soughtest, and converting mercies to change all for the best, resting confident in this, that having asked according to his will he heareth thee.

My audience is my audience and everybody in it forms an alliance every night. You perform for the entire crowd -- it's not about singling anyone out. And if your work is very, very daring and interesting, then smart people come to it, whether they're gay, straight, black, white, men, women. I mean, you gotta be able to get underneath what's really going on culturally, and then you're always gonna have a smart audience sitting in front of you.

When you know what you want to communicate, ask yourself: Who is my audience and what does he know about the subject?

I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

Yes, I have met with unsympathetic audiences in my time, but I don't know that an unsympathetic audience has much effect on me. I am not sure that I don't rather enjoy it for a change, for it is then a battle between me and them, and I always win.

Once you stay true to just having a good time and being honest to your fans and your audience, you can't go wrong.

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.