Quotes About Audience

You need interesting content that entertains or informs - preferably both. You want people to look forward to your posts and come back for more. People want to follow you. They want to hear your words and see your vision.

At the Drive-In was very meat and potatoes - a one-trick pony. Everyone was attracted to us because we put on a good live show.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

Knowing that I was potentially going to be the first black Bachelorette actually held me back from wanting to do it. With the first, there's always so much pressure. And I knew I was going to be new to the audience as a lead for a number of reasons - being over 30, being a career woman, and also being black.

I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I'm also aware that I've loved every minute of the 'Potter 'experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material.

Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows - conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those people to have something in common is real interesting to me.

I consider it, the life of being a comedian - they have a right to boo me.

I don't think people shouldn't try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.

I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

'Scandal' has been, for me, the most consistent time I've ever logged in front of a camera. I grew up in the theater, and I feel very confident and comfortable on the stage and in front of a live audience, but the camera is a very different medium.

I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.

I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.

When an actor constructs reality, it has to be riveting and entertaining. There has to be an emotional connect with the audience.

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

We want people to watch and consume what we do, but we are not trying to sell anything. So that does give us a freedom in a way.

Consumers of comedy, they like me and that's great.

I think when you make something that is non-mainstream and people don't have automatic way of consuming, like you don't have a big star, or a hit song or marketing money then you need to find some way to make audience aware of your film.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

I try to do a lot of direct contact with the audience, because the audience is part of the concert, too, as much as anyone on stage, and it's a shame not to get to meet them if you get the chance.

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.

I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.

There's traditionally been a large disconnection in contemporary art between the audience and the artist. Generally, audiences are looking towards what they like, and I can tell you, that's the last thing on an artist's mind.