Quotes About Audience

Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

Thank you ... San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you ... for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.

You can't just yell jokes at people.

My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor.

Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what they're supposed to be feeling, when they're supposed to laugh.

It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably not.

To me, humor is part of a conversation with an audience.

I've always felt I deserved a wider audience, so thank you for reading this.

There is never a bad joke, it's adressing to a wrong audience that makes it look bad!

A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

There is no such thing as an "independent artist". All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.

Don't give a speech. Put on a show.

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just 1 percent. That would be like turning the state of California off for almost two months.

Being booed off stage is just an applause from ghosts!

Audiences will admire your character's strength but connect with them through their weakness.