Quotes About Audience

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

Safe travels, my friend," Rafe said, smiling as he gently nudged the boy's shoulder. That was all it took. The boy lost his hold and fell like a rock into the mud. This time the spray flew higher, spattering Rafe's chest. He rubbed the drops of mud in with his sweat and grinned. The crowd went wild, and a few girls standing near me whispered among themselves. I thought it was time for him to put his shirt back on.

Because so many people fear speaking in public, many so-called experts tend to focus on simply surviving the experience.

As a speaker you need to identify your greatest weakness and use it to enhance your audience's understanding of who you are.

Speaking in public is a constant process of working for the attention of your audience.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.

how to keep the audience engaged and entertained throughout the story. No matter how well you have prepared for it, you can still encounter problems. You

In 2016 especially, news reporters began to consciously divide and radicalize audiences. The cover was that we were merely "calling out" our divisive new president, Donald Trump. But from where I sat, the press was now working in collaboration with Trump, acting in his simplistic mirror image, creating a caricatured oppositional demographic and feeding it content. As Trump rode to the White House, we rode to massive profits. The only losers were the American people

I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.

One does not write solely for oneself, or solely for truth, but not simply for others either. One writes. That is all, and in doing so one aims at all of that at once. Those who write imply that all of this can happen in the same movement.

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

The customer is always right' may have become a standard motto in the world of business, but the idea that 'the audience is always right,' has yet to make much of an impression on the world of presentation, even though for the duration of the presentation at least, the audience is the speaker's only customer.

It is somewhat too convenient to demonstrate one's courage in taking a stand where the audience and possible opponents are condemned to silence.

PR is not an elitist industry. Rather, it is an industry for the people it is supposed to reach. If it needs to reach a working class demographic, then PR experts would have to speak their language and know how to speak to them in the most effective manner.

There's only one true test of a comedy, and that's outright laughter. I don't care how beautiful the lighting is, how superlative the script is, how wonderful the performances are. If you're making a comedy and the audience isn't falling down, holding their bellies, screaming with laughter, you've probably got a failure. First laughter and then everything else.

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

but then we all know that actors shouldn't be allowed out when they're not on stage. The

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergère and looks at the audience.

Voltaire once said that God was merely a comedian playing before an audience that was afraid to laugh?

It was so avant-garde that the fire alarm sounded for a good few minutes before the audience slowly began to realise that it wasn't part of the performance.