Quotes About Audience

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.

There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.

I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.

None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.

I don't feel that any kind of narrow stereotypes are representative of the work I've done, nor the range of the audience that work has found. I've played lots of different roles, and they've connected with lots of different people.

As far as aging on screen is concerned, I am sure the TV audience don't go by stereotypes - they have evolved and become smarter over the years.

I want to always break stereotypes. It is fulfilling as an actor to be able to do that, especially when you see people and the audience loving it.

I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesn't make me let go.

The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.

In the United States, we have a large, broad middle that are decent, fair-minded people who are too busy to really think about issues other than their next paycheck. Those are the people that we want to get to in order to change the social climate. And Howard Stern has that audience. So I said, 'Let's boldly go where I've never been before.'

I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?

Rooney, of course, he believes that he is the reason that people stick around all the way through the show. They'll put up with anything, you know, in order to get to Rooney, and that's why we're at number 16 or 14 or whatever.

So when you're following guys like Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish or The Young Bucks or Jay Lethal or The Briscoe Brothers, and you're going out and trying to really stick out and have a very memorable, talked-about main event, or the match of the night, like the main event should be, it's really challenging.

I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.

I was in New York City and my sister and cousin came out to see me, and I brought a guitar on stage. But all the audience wanted was for me to play so they weren't listing to anything I was saying, I bombed hard. On the cab ride home, my sister pulled a sticker off the cab and put it on my guitar which I still have today in my man cave.

If you want an audience that genuinely sticks around, you have to listen to what their opinion is.

Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.

There's been a stigma out there that cartoons only equal kids.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.