Quotes About Audience

I also knew that he was the kind of anile little runt who, in foyers and theatre bars the West End over, can be heard bleating into their gin and tonics, I go to the theatre to be entertained.

The British are like that, especially the middle class Radio 4 audience: a young snappy, angry person annoys them, and they shout at the radio for him to show some respect and get the spiritual and intellectual equivalent of a haircut. But let the same sentiments exactly, word for word, be uttered in high academic tones, as if by a compound of G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell and Anthony Quinton, and they will roll onto their tummies and purr.

Opening up the thrill and wonder of scientific discovery, creating innovative and accessible ways to reach out the widest audience possible, greatly increases the chances of finding and inspiring the new Einstein. Wherever she might be.

But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart?

Ladies and gentlemen, attention, please! Come in close where everyone can see! I got a tale to tell, it isn't gonna cost a dime! (And if you believe that, we're gonna get along just fine.)

Choose your audience wisely, for its not your performance that varies but their response is what matters!

A director standing by his film rejected by the audience is like him telling a girl 'I love myself and I don't care if you don't love me'.

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

To love to preach is one thing; to love to whom you preach is quite another.

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.

There's something about playing every night, it becomes easy and it becomes fun. I love being up there and playing for different crowds every night.

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.

eyed the assembly. "C'mon. Let's not have another incident like the Orphans Fundraiser." There were apparently many pairs of shoes that suddenly required close attention. "Not a one? Really? Well . . . Izzy will be the first, then." A small, almost perfectly spherical girl, half hidden among the packed audience, raised her hands to her mouth.

Psychic." "Thirty pounds a ticket, they're paying, to sit there with a glass of cheap white wine and shout, "Yes!" when someone asks did someone in the audience have a relative whose name began with J.

There aren't enough video game shows that update frequently enough, so I decided to try to make one to entertain the masses.

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

The only thing about school he seemed to like was the audience it provided.

When all three conditions apply, people do their darnedest to figure out the truth, because that's what the audience wants to hear. But the rest of the time—which is almost all of the time—accountability pressures simply increase confirmatory thought. People are trying harder to look right than to be right.

Accountability increases exploratory thought only when three conditions apply: (1) decision makers learn before forming any opinion that they will be accountable to an audience, (2) the audience's views are unknown, and (3) they believe the audience is well informed and interested in accuracy. When all three conditions apply, people do their darnedest to figure out the truth

This is one reason social media has been so transformative: there is always an audience eager to watch people being shamed, particularly when it is so easy for spectators to join in and pile on. Life in a call-out culture requires constant vigilance, fear, and self-censorship.

Accountability increases exploratory thought only when three conditions apply: (1) decision makers learn before forming any opinion that they will be accountable to an audience, (2) the audience's views are unknown, and (3) they believe the audience is well informed and interested in accuracy.

Régis Jauffret got it right when he said that he was disgusted by writers who think of their readers.