Quotes About Audience

More people saw the pilot of 'Glee' than saw me in my entire 10-year career on Broadway.

The first season of a show is kind of like an extended pilot. You're only really on the map if it goes a second season.

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.

My whole family was in 'Into the West' as a pioneer family; they're in the audience in 'The Great Debaters.' My family's been getting a lot of work off me!

I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's a dead genre. If you make a bad pirate movie, no one will want to see it. If you make a good one, everyone will want to see it.

I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.

You know, it's nice on a sitcom to have an audience there, but there's still a wall of cameras between you and them.

Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.

Whatever the motivation of the 'Wall Street Journal' and other right-wing publications, it is clearly long past time for the climate denial scheme to come in from the talk shows and the blogosphere and have to face the kind of an audience that a civil RICO investigation could provide.

People don't like to see a sloppy fight, to see heavyweights wallow around. They like to see exciting fighters.

As artists we need to stop making work only for gallery or museum walls, or the coffee tables of collectors.

The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me.

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

In an outdoor environment, you need to be more energetic. The attention of the crowd begins to wander - not like an indoor concert where the audience attention is riveted on to the stage.

I had 20,000 followers and I treasured that. People'd say, 'Oh that's nothing.' I said, 'What are you crazy? That's 20,000 people that wanna hear what I gotta say!'

I plan to make records as long as people wanna keep listening to them.

It's just weird because I can't believe that all those people wanna come see me. Like, there's so many. So, it's just crazy to think about, but it's also really awesome.

'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and 'Used Cars' were absolute failures at the box office. Complete disasters. I learned some sad news: it's not an automatic thing that, if you make a good movie, everyone wants to see it.

I wanna go play my music in a club.

I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.

I wanna cover more ground, get a bigger fan base.

When people come to a concert, they wanna hear the hits, the big radio songs, and they wanna hear them how they're used to hearing them. I like playing them how they were recorded.

If the people dig it, then I dig it. If the people wanna hear it, then I wanna play it.