Quotes About Audience

I believe the UFC knows what they're watching and looking for, so I always try and put on a great show for everybody watching and try to go out there and finish my opponent and do something exciting. I believe a lot of people come out to watch me and see me perform.

When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.

The best thing is to go into an opposing arena, and 15,000 people are focusing on you. That's the best feeling.

I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true.

Some actors - myself included - like to know where your character's going: you like to know what the arc is for the character so that you can plan where you're going to give beats for this, that, and the other and give the audience what they want. But on 'Homeland,' you do the opposite.

I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.

I've played the Opry before.

The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.

It's cool to hear my songs on the radio. But for me, that's just a way to get more people to have the option of choosing my music.

There is power in music, certainly when an audience starts to show up and you have the option to send good messages.

Multi-camera's fun because you have the immediacy of the audience and just being able to tell the story more or less straight through. The thing I like about single-camera is that you have the luxury of shooting a lot of different options.

'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.

After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college-going boy in 'Orange.'

Orange County is one of the all-time great markets for MMA.

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

I feel like in order for something to connect to an audience there needs to be a form of authenticity.

Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen on the ordinary apprentice. That is probably the best indictment with our fascination with celebrity in our culture, which drives me crazy.

You come across quite ordinary, nondescript people in daily life, and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage, too.

I always put myself in the audience's seat, whether it is a film like 'Judwaa 2' or 'Badlapur.' There has to be a message; the core story needs to have a hook, which should be out of the ordinary.

I don't like playing to guitar players, actually. I'd rather just play to ordinary people.

If it doesn't feel organic to the audience, you gotta trust your gut.