Quotes About Audience

But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.

My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They've got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I've got to be conscious of that.

I had won the argument, but somehow, as in our college days, he had won the audience.

The entire audience had been cheering and applauding wildly throughout the speech, and if he had rolled out a communist in a cage, the spectators would have gladly called for him to rip out the red's beating heart with his massive fists.

Shakespeare said "all the world is a stage" if it is then I suggest you to perform better than anyone else.

You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

Art is love-times-love; the creator loves it and his audience adores it. To miss the sensation of loving art is to miss a kind of parenthood—false pregnancy perhaps—but as Van Gogh said, "If, defrauded of the power to create physically, a man tries to create thoughts in place of children, he is still part of humanity"...a big part.

Because I don't think I have a handle on how to write for grown-ups. The grown-up publishing world is so fraught with one-upsmanship, scorn and snobbery. I did write an adult novel. Thank goodness it went out of print. I think we kids' authors still start out with hope every morning. We honor our audience.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

The successful writers continue to learn and grow in their craft—and also to grow their audience or tribe or platform.

No book or magazine article is for "everyone" so know your audience, then target them with your writing.

I've found most authors have the wrong mental picture of the process. Instead of a sprint, publishing is more like a marathon. Slow, steady and consistent action will get you your audience and success.

Publishing in magazine is an under-used route for authors to reach readers. As a former magazine editor, I understand the power of reaching the audience…With one article, I have reached millions of people.

You have to consistently work at building your audience or platform.

The public will stand, nay even enjoy, a good deal of poetry.

I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

There are some great shows that come and go really fast, either because the network doesn't give them a chance or they just don't grab on to the psyche of the country quickly enough.

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!

You have to take the chance to bomb and disappoint audiences.

I go out and play not for the numbers, but for a chance to win and the thrill of playing in front of a packed crowd.