Quotes About Audience

Unlike virtually everyone else, I know how to work a room. That comes in pretty handy. If you're not getting any laughs, then at least you can make people watch you.

It's virtually impossible for most sites to do a billion page views in a month or even a year.

What I've learned by going out and playing smaller venues and being more in touch with people is getting feedback, just by virtue of being able to watch the crowd react and watch their faces instead of being blinded by 3,000 spotlights. I've realized that you can quickly get out of touch with your audience if you're not careful.

Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.

If 'The Blacklist' taught me anything, it was kind of open-ended intrigue and leaving questions unanswered. Creating this kind of mystery by virtue of depriving the audience of these easy answers was what I was kind of into.

One of the virtues of 'The X-Men' was that it managed to transcend the expectations and prejudices of the medium. It appealed to a vaster audience than anyone had ever anticipated from any superhero book, much less 'X-Men.'

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.

I've done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like 'The Normal Heart.' We could feel the reaction of the audience every night. It was visceral.

I've been called a race traitor, prejudiced about white people. It's ridiculous... I have a really, really diverse crowd. Most comedy clubs appeal to white audiences. I have a very mixed crowd. I have a lot of visibility in the black audience.

There is no doubt English football is very big, with huge visibility.

I know that one's visibility is very high on television, even with an unsuccessful show! With a successful role, it's even higher.

I stay visible online because that's where my fans are.

I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience.

Michael Jackson had a stable vision. He had a strong message, not only pop. People just fainted at his concert.

The human condition's like an audience whose members are always surprised when they're required to become actors.

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.

I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.

Anything that makes the show unique is something I enjoy. If people blow their horns from their boats at Humphreys, or someone yells out something, that says to the audience: 'This is only happening right now. This is only happening tonight.' That's a good thing, no matter what it is.

Poets so their verses write, Heap them full of life and light, And then fling them to the rude Mumbling of the multitude.

Audiences must be educated, too -- in a very gentle way, of course, but the relation of the audience to music is very mobile, very different. Certainly a Chicago audience can react differently from a Paris audience or from a Rome audience.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.