Quotes About Audience

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

How many people here have telekinetic powers? Raise my hand.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure

If people criticize you, hurt you, or shout at you. Don't bother just remember. In every game, audience makes the noise, not the players

Find your true audience - Not everyone will get it and that's okay, it keeps you being true to yourself.

But if Mme. Sherbatoff did not look at the audience, remained in shadow, it was to try to forget that there existed a living world which she passionately desired and was unable to know

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

I spoke with the assurance of a young woman who thought her experience with natural history and ad hoc education in other subjects more than qualified her to hold forth on topics she knew nothing about at all. The truth is that any such comparison is far more complicated and doubtful than I presented it that evening; but it is also true that no one in my audience knew any more about it than I did, and most of them knew less. My assertion was therefore allowed to stand unchallenged. For

Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

It's the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central and they've been good to me.

(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?

Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.

The average man plays to the gallery of his own self - esteem

If a condescending joke is truly funny, make yourself the subject- you will increase the number of people laughing by at least one.

Banquet: an affair where you eat a lot of food you don't want before talking about something you don't understand to a crowd of people who don't want to hear you

My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi ' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

Human beings are afraid of very simple things: we fear suffering, we fear mortality. What I was doing in Rhythm 0—as in all my other performances—was staging these fears for the audience: using their energy to push my body as far as possible. In the process, I liberated myself from my fears. And as this happened, I became a mirror for the audience—if I could do it, they could do it, too.

I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.