Quotes About Audience

They started saying stuff like 'Should we cut the movie? Is it too this, too that?' It got drastic. It got heated. I said, 'Wait a minute, folks. I didn't make 'Smokey' for big-city audiences. I made it for the South, the Midwest and Northwest. Those are my people.'

That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.

I'm generally not interested in Shakespeare or 'Broadchurch'. I only want to make people laugh, really.

I have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in Nebraska. Why Nebraska? Why the Cornhusker State? I have no idea. But it feels like it's a good place to talk to people.

Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?

I never look at a note. I just roam the stage. The people do not want to leave.

I don't want to make 'Chandni Bar 2.' I didn't think 'Fashion 2' will happen. If a film ends on a high note... makes the audience think and lingers in the end... that is needed.

The bane of every TV writer's existence is the likability note.

For artists like me nothing matters more than the audience's respect.

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

Hulk Hogan and I put 43,000 people in the Georgia Dome with three days' notice. I've got a fairly big following in Atlanta.

I love New York audiences, because they're used to going to shows, and you really notice it. They laugh and applaud and do all the things that you want an audience to do.

I felt that mainstream comedy caters to men and people don't even notice.

I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

I would never bring a kid to a comedy show myself, but I have noticed that I can't stop other people from bringing their kids.

I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I was like, 'That doesn't make sense. The genre that I love the most is the one that doesn't work.'

I've noticed that Hindi films do well in the north, but they don't do that well in the south. But, I want everything! I want the north and the south.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

Even men used to hide their marriages because they used to feel people will not like them anymore. It's the industry which has the false notion that an actor or an actress, if married, is not desirable to the audience.

You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books.

I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.

Audiences are brutally honest nowadays. If they don't like an actor, they have all the right to write him off.

I do love the social-media aspect of working records nowadays. You can do a video and put it up on social media, and people check you out who would never check you out before. I think it's much cooler that you can just get the product right to the fans.