Quotes About Audience

I saw my blood and snot and teeth splashed all over the dashboard the moment after the accident, but hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

The same as if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, you realize, if no one had been there to witness the agony of Christ, would we be saved? The key to salvation is how much attention you get. How high a profile you get. Your audience share. Your exposure. Your name recognition. Your press following.

Think of a story as a stream of information. At best it's an ever-changing series of rhythms. Now think of yourself, the writer, as a DJ mixing tracks. The more music you have to sample from—the more records you have to spin—the more likely you'll keep your audience dancing.

I'd like to see more stand-up routines venture into depicting tragedy. It's conventional to give people a humorous cathartic release; now I'd love to hear stand-up tragedy that would reduce the audience to exhausted tears.

It's an amazing feeling to think that people actually took time out of their lives to learn the words to our music. The adulation and sound of the crowd can be overwhelming, but the idea is to perform like you're performing for one person. Whether you're performing for 3 people or 30,000, you have to be 100 percent there. By

The audience wants a safety blanket. It's the storyteller's job to take that safety blanket and choke them with it until they experience a profound narrative orgasm.

A storyteller makes us feel something. Makes us give a shit when we have no good reason to do so. Fun is not the last stop on the story train. The storyteller is master manipulator. The storyteller is cackling puppetmaster.

The titles that went down spectacularly well with this new mass audience were, predictably, the most sensational ones, like Bulwer's Paul Clifford (a gripping outlaw tale, published in 1830*2), Bulwer's fictionalized account of the real-life murderer Eugene Aram (1832), or Charles Whitehead's Lives and Exploits of English Highwaymen, Pirates and Robbers (1834). They spawned a whole school of criminal romance

Art is of absolutely no use to the masses

material both narrated and displayed with text on the screen, and the second presentation included the narration with the text on the screen removed. Audiences who experienced the second presentation retained 28 percent more information and could apply 79 percent more creative solutions using the information than those who experienced the first presentation.

March-April 1935 issue of Crawford's Marvel Tales, and it probably was not seen by more than a few hundred people. But

Talk of Power and Might would always attract an audience. Lords never went out of fashion.

So you can't please all the people all the time. All you can do is what pleases you, and hope that it pleases other people. I love my readers, and I respect my readers, but I'm not going to simplify or echo myself, copy myself, just so the sales will be better.

An audience that is unwilling to suspend its own presuppositions and biases while considering an opposed (or even unopposed) viewpoint not only frustrates the function of extended argument but effectively denies its own beliefs a rational basis.

one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.

Waiting for Godot] has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.

Želim da ustanem, da raširim ruke za beskrajni zagrljaj, da se velikim, blistavim re?ima obratim nevidljivoj publici. Po?eo bih ovako: – O bogovi duginih boja...

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

a poem is only finished when the last reader has read it or listened to it.

I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.

Se tivesses acreditado na minha brincadeira de dizer verdades, teria ouvido verdades que teimo em dizer brincando. Muitas vezes falei como o palhaço, mas nunca desacreditei da seriedade da platéia que sorria.

It is a hopeless endeavour to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.

Gradualmente desertó el auditorio y parpadearon algunas luces en las casuchas, luces que, en vez de apagarse, no parecía sino que habían huido al cielo para convertirse en estrellas.