Quotes About Audience

Know what your listeners care about, so you can tailor your communication to them.

If you've got to teach an idea to a room full of people, and you aren't certain what they know, concreteness is the only safe language.

If you want your ideas to be stickier, you've got to break someone's guessing machine and then fix it. But in surprising people, in breaking their guessing machines, how do we avoid gimmicky surprise, like the wolves? The easiest way to avoid gimmicky surprise and ensure that your unexpected ideas produce insight is to make sure you target an aspect of your audience's guessing machines that relates to your core message. We

To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?

Haven't you seen how many of them come to the palace each week, just to see us wave to them from the public balcony?

The band responded by handing their instruments over to some fans during the encores, and leaving the stage. 'That was the ultimate,' Paul told Q. 'People pay to come in and see us – and end up playing the bloody songs themselves.

If you focus any energy trying to please those you're not for, you will change how you do things and simultaneously stop thrilling those you are for!3

With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.

You're entertaining people whether they like you or hate you. You're entertaining their hatred. And if they like you, you're entertaining their love.

One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater was that I couldn't sit in the audience and watch me. — JOHN BARRYMORE

The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'

Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience. And I think that's part of what will loosen up in the future, as technology makes it cheaper, you'll be able to make films for a more selective audience. I think people will be able to make more personal movies.

Please understand that when I use this term – technical win – I'm referring to the responsibility to both convince the audience of the technical superiority of the solution and establish the business value of the investment.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.

The camerawork might be shaky, the plot might have holes, the audience might not even know what the film is about, but if your actors are compelling you can still keep people in their seats.

The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see at that moment.

But what happens if and when writers begin to outnumber readers? What happens when writing becomes more attractive than reading? Will we become -- or are we already -- a nation of performers with no audience?

the gentry pact came to be constituted as an audience for radical new incarnations of conservative nationalism,

Once Burns had admitted frankly that the most difficult thing he had to learn at Oxford was the English. What was it that David had said last summer? 'We are becoming a nation of professional eccentrics. Foreigners provide us with a stage, and we enjoy our little appearances all the more because we convince everyone, including ourselves, that we don't even notice the audience.

The most charismatic leaders don't seem to be as concerned with the material they're presenting as they are with getting to know their audiences.