Quotes About Audience

I try to put on a show while being effective because the spectators come to be entertained by beautiful play.

Going out to play a game in front of 100,000 spectators doesn't worry me. Nothing to it.

It's good to draw spectators to the grounds, but I don't think Twenty20 will help you produce good Test cricketers.

I have my diehard R&B fans on one side of the spectrum and my diehard pop and dance fans on the other side of the spectrum.

You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people.

To some degree, as I move outside of the exclusive genre audience, the exclusive genre issues don't bother me as much. Maybe that's just speculation.

I feel - and this goes back to social media and freedom of speech - when you're on a public platform, and you put something out there in front of people who don't know you, they might just perceive it in a very different way altogether.

Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches.

Nobody wants to hear long speeches.

Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it's harder to fire up the crowd.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape - you absolutely need to have fast-moving news online, but if you want to build a large audience over time, you absolutely have to take a risk on the big challenging stuff.

We compete with all of the time that consumers spend when they're not sleeping, they're not eating, not going to work or going to school. Because everything else is entertainment time.

Don't spend months building something without any idea if someone actually wants it.

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

If people are spending money to hear us, they better go home happy.

If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience. If I had to choose, it would be theater and doing the occasional movie once in a while, and spending time doing nothing.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.

Bob Monkhouse, Galton and Simpson, Spike Milligan and I all started around the same time with an enormous advantage: working to an audience all of whom had shared an awful, common experience - the war.

When I get a beautifully written piece of material, I immediately start imagining how I would interpret it. I love just daydreaming about it for months, breaking it down, seeing where I can spin something. How I can turn this into the most fun ride for the audience that I can make it? That's my job.

When it comes to being on stage, I might be on stage one minute and the next minute I might be in the audience, dancing and lifting people's spirits.

And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.