Quotes About Audience

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do.

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.

Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again.

The Internet gave a place like, 'Oh, I'll do whatever I want now. Nobody's going to see it anyways.' Oddly enough, people started watching and I got more confident, comfortable with it.

I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.

I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.

Whatever it is, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. And if that's what you want from a job, then this is the best job you could ever do.

Giving it to the audience is probably the easiest thing. Finding out what they truly want is probably the most difficult.

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

I ain't makin' music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets - that want a street level of entertainment. I'm makin' music because I have the streets to feed.

There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I'm not into all that.

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.