Quotes About Audience

Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

We're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a charge, because they keep it interesting all the time.

I was paid to be cheeky and people clapped me for it.

People have paid for content. They always have.

When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

Monk's music is often defined as enigmatic, eccentric and humorous - as if it had little to do with the pain he may have endured to create his art. But I believe Monk routinely shared his history with his audience, no matter how unpalatable that history was, and it is for that very reason that his music connects with people around the globe.

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.

I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.

The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.

Hindi films are watched with keen interest in Pakistan, as Pakistani plays are watched in India. Pakistani actors also work in the Indian entertainment industry.

I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be.

My debut project was during a pandemic, so I was in the house and never got to see the people who listened.

It is noticeable how many times you see a panel at a conference made up of all men or look into the audience and see very few women, whether it is an event focused on technology or business.

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.

I've done the best I can with the morning show. I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, you have the morning papers, you know, it's got that feel to it, that's what I wanted.

Personally, I might be all for parallel or experimental cinema, but when I'm making a film, I don't mind adding a commercial tadka.

Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.

I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'

At first, I was playing in front of 10 people in a park, then 1,000, then 10,000, then 80,000 and you are on television. I have done it step by step, so it is not a problem. There is no lack of confidence to be on the field, in front of many, many people.